California Bets Big on Housing in Medicaid
Tradeoffs
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The Impotence of Cal Am's Influence on Housing
California is creating a $1.3 billion program to pay plans if they work with housing agencies to find their patients permanent housing. JC Cooper: "It is hard when you have certain parts of the puzzle kind of really working, and then you hit a limitation that you don't find" A literature review found that connecting complex patients to social services rarely improved outcomes or lowered costs compared to similar patients who received traditional medical care.
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