{"id":9619,"date":"2018-02-20T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9619"},"modified":"2018-02-20T09:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:22:47","slug":"couple-makes-millions-off-medicaid-managed-care-as-oversight-lags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9619","title":{"rendered":"Couple Makes Millions Off Medicaid Managed Care As Oversight Lags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Chad Terhune for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>CHULA VISTA, Calif. \u2014 Norma Diaz and her husband, Joseph Garcia, have dedicated their careers to running a nonprofit health insurer that covers some of California\u2019s neediest residents.<\/p>\n<p>For three decades, they have worked for a Medicaid managed-care plan, Community Health Group, serving nearly 300,000 poor and disabled patients in San Diego County under a state contract funded entirely by taxpayers.\u00a0They\u2019ve\u00a0earned above-average ratings\u00a0for patient care. <a href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/couple-makes-millions-off-medicaid-managed-care-as-oversight-lags\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=60798931&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9WGSrc9xZO85yQ9aGQkZuddHhWmkti5fBLiolzU35laau9fwSbx_N5e3NsRXFrfGAsknurreJrmfycVB4PTb0aDOLBlQ&amp;_hsmi=60798931\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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