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The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research said that for every 1,000 people enrolled in California's Whole Person Care pilot program, there were 45 fewer hospitalizations and 130 fewer ER visits when compared with a similar group of patients who were not in the program.

Nadereh Pourat, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles' Fielding School of Public Health, noted that insurance companies use financial incentives or penalties to promote important preventive care. Examples she has seen included promoting chlamydia screening or checking for cavities in young children, she said in an email. "The hope is to get providers used to routinely providing evidence-based care," but not to continue providing the incentive forever," Pourat said.

Eliminating the premiums is likely to create more stable coverage for families over time, regardless of whether their income inches up or down," said Nadereh Pourat, associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

The results show that such programs help complex patients in different ways, depending on their needs," Pourat said. "Most importantly, our findings highlight the overall success of the Whole Person Care program and its potential for improving the lives of high-risk patients.

Nadereh Pourat, a professor at the Fielding School of Public Health and researcher on the case, said she will indirectly measure the health of residents in Aliso Canyon's surrounding areas by identifying where residents utilized health care, which will help understand the short and long term health impacts of exposure on residents compared to those who were not exposed to the gas leak.

"More than three-quarters of patients in MLK's emergency department rely on Medi-Cal -- The California Medicaid program -- and roughly 10% are uninsured, according to hospital figures. Medicaid programs reimburse doctors at lower rates than private insurers, which can "reduce the number of providers that are willing to participate," said Nadereh Pourat, associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research."

Enrollment, claims, and depression and anxiety score data were obtained from the medical group. The implementation process and self-reported outcomes were examined.

A UCLA research team has received a five-year, $21 million grant from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to study the health consequences of the 2015–16 Aliso Canyon gas leak disaster.

When the Affordable Care Act was first implemented, data indicated that Black and Hispanic populations were not enrolling at high rates, in part due to historical distrust of the federal government, according to Nadereh Pourat, the associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

California will become the first state to guarantee free health care to all low-income undocumented immigrants. The move will cover an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year. “Most people who go to the emergency room have insurance and are not worried about providing documents,” says Nadereh Pourat, Ph.D. director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Division of Cancer Prevention and Research. On the other hand, “the undocumented who end up in the emergency room have often