A longtime political aide to county supervisors’ Chairman Andrew Do with less than a year of work experience in healthcare administration has just moved into a $282,000 job as a top advisor to the health plan’s CEO.
Tag: Ed Kacic
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Supervisors Overhaul CalOptima Board for Second Time in Five Years
Supervisors say changes will increase oversight of the county’s health plan for poor and disabled residents. Critics are encouraged by some of the changes but skeptical that too much power will remain with the hospital industry.
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Mystery Check Leads to More Secrecy Issues at CalOptima
The health plan took delivery of a $90,391 cashier’s check, but the sender refused to reveal who donated the money.
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CalOptima Board Responds to Critical Grand Jury Report
The board last week voted unanimously to send a two-page letter that largely dismisses the grand jury’s findings.
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CalOptima Selects Members to Respond to Grand Jury
The board has until the end of April to answer the grand jury’s accusations that Supervisor Janet Nguyen has damaged the health plan.
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Former CalOptima Board Members Push Back at Nguyen
Two former CalOptima board members blast Supervisor Janet Nguyen about grand jury allegations of lobbyist ties to health care ordinance changes. Nguyen meets with reporters Wednesday at 10 a.m.
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OC Grand Jury Issues Scathing Report on CalOptima
The report raises troubling questions about hospital lobbyists writing ordinance changes to CalOptima, the county’s $1.4-billion health plan for the poor and elderly, and the health industry’s campaign cash connections to county Supervisor Janet Nguyen.
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CalOptima Names New CEO
Board unanimously approves appointing Michael Schrader of Boston HealthNet on same day it received demand from former chairman Ed Kacic.
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Former CalOptima Board Chairman Rejects Demand for Repayment
Michael D. Stephens said the demand by the county health care plan is part of a series of “surreal events.”
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CalOptima Sends Letters Seeking Refunds From Former Chairmen
The county’s health plan for the poor also wants two nonprofits to pay for staff time and office space provided by Cal Optima.
