Rate cuts, lack of state action kill Medicaid-only PSO.

Abstract

Providers learn from a Medicaid plan that didn't survive. When the University of Chicago started its Family First Medicaid plan, that health system thought it could retain its Medicaid patients by offering members a good benefit package with top-notch customer service, and even attract more patients when the state went to mandatory managed care enrollment. But two years later, the provider-sponsored plan is gone. Find out what went wrong.