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A California program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries with complex medical needs and chronic conditions reduced the number of emergency department visits and hospital stays among enrollees, according to an evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. For those enrollees, the change lowered the annual cost of health care —paid by Medi-Cal — by an average of $1,113 per person, the report found.
July 11, 2023
Press Releases
A California program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries with complex medical needs and chronic conditions reduced the number of emergency department visits and hospital stays among enrollees, according to an evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. For those enrollees, the change lowered the annual cost of health care —paid by Medi-Cal — by an average of $1,113 per person, the report found.
July 11, 2023
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Nadereh Pourat is director of the Center's Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program and lead author of an evaluation of L.A. County's Parks After Dark (PAD) program. In this brief interview, Pourat discusses the origin and evolution of the after-dark program, what makes it different, and whether it improved community-police interaction.
August 22, 2017
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Nadereh Pourat is director of the Center's Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program and lead author of an evaluation of L.A. County's Parks After Dark (PAD) program. In this brief interview, Pourat discusses the origin and evolution of the after-dark program, what makes it different, and whether it improved community-police interaction.
August 22, 2017
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Nadereh Pourat is the Center's director of research and author of the new policy brief that summarizes the evaluation of a pilot program that aimed to improve health care delivery at a group of California's safety-net hospitals. In this brief interview, Pourat discusses what prompted the program, how the evaluation of hospitals was conducted, and how the hospital systems achieved success through the program.
June 28, 2017
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Nadereh Pourat is the Center's director of research and author of the new policy brief that summarizes the evaluation of a pilot program that aimed to improve health care delivery at a group of California's safety-net hospitals. In this brief interview, Pourat discusses what prompted the program, how the evaluation of hospitals was conducted, and how the hospital systems achieved success through the program.
June 28, 2017
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A journal article in Health Affairs by Nadereh Pourat, the Center’s director of research, garnered attention for its headline that one-quarter of Californian children have never seen a dentist. Beneath that statistic, however, are equally disturbing data about dental health inequities. Pourat and her co-author found that even with publically-funded insurance, low-income minority children were less likely to get regular dental care. Here Pourat discusses some of the reasons why, how health
July 28, 2010
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A journal article in Health Affairs by Nadereh Pourat, the Center’s director of research, garnered attention for its headline that one-quarter of Californian children have never seen a dentist. Beneath that statistic, however, are equally disturbing data about dental health inequities. Pourat and her co-author found that even with publically-funded insurance, low-income minority children were less likely to get regular dental care. Here Pourat discusses some of the reasons why, how health
July 28, 2010