BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Jindal administration is unveiling the details of its proposal to revamp the way the state provides health care to the poor and uninsured.
The plan would involve steering money away from charity hospitals and toward managed care networks that give patients more options for where they receive services.
Managed care providers would get a fee per patient, and doctors and hospitals would get incentives based on their performance.
Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to talk about the proposal Friday afternoon. His health care secretary has been negotiating the proposal with federal officials who would have to sign off on it before it could begin. State lawmakers also would have to agree to the overhaul as well.
The administration says the restructuring will help control costs and improve care.
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