Managed care for the medically uninsured: the preliminary experience of CU CARE.
Uninsured Americans often face barriers to or lack continuity of care. Care for this population is often fragmented, expensive and undercompensated. University Hospital in Denver, in partnership with Kaiser Permanente of Colorado, sought to address this problem by developing CU CARE, a managed care demonstration program for the medically uninsured within the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. This paper describes the evolution and preliminary experience of the CU CARE program. Policy implications for the future of health care delivery to this population are also briefly discussed.
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University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA.
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