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Law Practice

Nov. 27, 2008

After Early Win, Pharmacists Fight Latest Round of Medi-Cal Rate Cuts

Pharmacists who earlier this year won an injunction against the state's 10 percent rate cuts to Medi-Cal providers are back in court fighting a new plan to slash half a billion dollars from the health care budget.

By Evan George
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Pharmacists who earlier this year won an injunction against the state's 10 percent rate cuts to Medi-Cal providers are back in court fighting a new plan to slash half a billion dollars from the health care budget.

Rebuffed by a federal judge as well as an appeals court, state officials are hoping a new round of smaller cuts will pass legal muster.

The latest cuts, which went mostly un...

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