California’s $12 Billion Medicaid Makeover Banks on Nonprofits’ Buy-In By Angela Hart MAY 16, 2024

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/newsom-medicaid-12-billion-dollar-makeover-nonprofits-bureacracy-calaim/?utm_campaign=KHN%20-%20Weekly%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8ir1P-J-G1oRiT9don28dCys10slOp58OqjEPLsNusczjblLdfFhrgtaesufhNP9RdpcUov7qugVNyZgRCBSUBVyBRkg&_hsmi=307575571&utm_content=307575571&utm_source=hs_email California’s $12 Billion Medicaid Makeover Banks on Nonprofits’ Buy-In By Angela Hart California’s Medicaid program is relying heavily on community groups to deliver new social services to vulnerable patients, such as security deposits for homeless people and air purifiers for asthma patients. But many of these nonprofits face staffing and billing challenges and haven’t been able to deliver services effectively.