title: Rate cuts, lack of state action kill Medicaid-only PSO.
abstract: Providers learn from a Medicaid plan that didn't survive. When the University of Chicago started its Family First Medicaid plan, that health system thought it could retain its Medicaid patients by offering members a good benefit package with top-notch customer service, and even attract more patients when the state went to mandatory managed care enrollment. But two years later, the provider-sponsored plan is gone. Find out what went wrong.
mesh_terms: D002641:Chicago; D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000191:economics; D008484:Medicaid / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D020400:Provider-Sponsored Organizations / Q000191:economics*; D020414:Risk Sharing, Financial; D014481:United States