Suit aims to block Hawaii's plan to shift blind, elderly, disabled on Medicaid into managed care

Physicians say the health plans that won the contracts don't have adequate networks to guarantee access to care. By Amy Lynn Sorrel, AMNews staff. July 21, 2008

A Hawaii physician-and-patient advocacy group has sued the state to halt its plan to put 37,000 aged, blind and disabled Medicaid patients into a managed care program -- a plan that doctors say will threaten access to care for some of the state's most vulnerable people.