managed care

California has imposed a tax on managed care organizations — health insurance providers that provide or arrange services for a monthly payment — off and on over time.

Care, known as managed care organizations, can be used.

Care, which serves more than 2.6 million people across the county, operates a managed care plan for patients on Medi-Cal, the California Medicaid program.

It was 1999, and Weisbart was the medical director of a Chicago medical group that managed care for more than 140,000 people.

To see what Medicaid patients might encounter when seeking psychiatric care, researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College randomly chose scores of “psychiatric prescribing clinicians” — psychiatrists, nurse practitioners and physician assistants — who were listed as accepting new patients by the biggest managed care plans for Medicaid patients in each city, then phoned to ask for the soonest available appointment.