No Primary Care Doc? We’ll Get You One

(By Pauline Bartolone for Kaiser Health News)

Health insurers are gearing up to comply with a new Covered California rule that will require them next year to ensure that all enrollees have a primary care provider.

The policy change for 2017 is part of a broader push by the exchange to improve the quality of care, even as it faces double-digit premium increases. Read article here…..

This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.”

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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