Medicaid waiver program helped public hospitals improve care to California’s most needy
	        
            
          
          
                  	        
	  	    Results UCLA report are the first from a national effort to reform public hospitals. A five-year Medicaid waiver program that infused billions of dollars into public hospitals prompted significant improvements in health care to California’s neediest population — the poor and uninsured, according to an extensive evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.