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Big Business, Little Data

A growing number of Californians are being sent to ambulatory surgery centers for a wide variety of procedures, yet little is known about the care they deliver because reporting is not required.

And the Winner Is...

See how human-centered designers answered our challenge to encourage more people to complete advance directives and document their end-of-life wishes.

Ready or Not

Even with new federal resources to help, a study finds that communities with weaker safety-net systems are lagging in preparations for health reform.

Prescription Drugs

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

CalPERS Gives Out $16.8M in Medicare Retiree Rx Subsidies

On Tuesday, CalPERS announced that it has distributed $16.8 million in Medicare retiree subsidy funding to more than 820 agencies for costs incurred under Medicare's prescription drug benefit program. The latest round of funds is the fourth subsidy given out to local public agencies since the Medicare prescription drug program was established in 2006.



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