Consumer problems with prepaid health plans in California; implications for serving medicaid recipients through health maintenance organizations.
PubMedPublished 20 May 1977Open access
Carol N. D’Onofrio, Patricia Dolan Mullen
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California's prepaid health program for Medicaid beneficiaries has fallen so far short of its promise that many consider it scandalous, and the aim here is to alert public health professionals to the many possible pitfalls in applying the program.
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