Six consumer advocacy groups have identified several state plans under the State Children's Insurance Program (CHIP) that provide good solutions to cost-sharing, crowd-out and other thorny implementation problems states face.
The HealthCare Foundation, created by the conversion of Blue Cross of California from a non-profit health plan to a for-profit corporation, announced that it authorized $35 million in programs and grants in its first year as a new philanthropy.
In an effort to understand how the sale of a major non-profit hospital to a for-profit health system impacts the community it serves before the sale takes place, the California attorney general's office turned to a prominent outside consulting firm for help.
