From October 2015 to May 2016, roughly 2,000 pregnant women were unknowingly switched from their Covered California health plans to Medi-Cal plans. Some affected women lost established physicians or missed prenatal appointments due to the malfunction.
Computer system fixes arrived Sept. 26, nearly a year after the problem was discovered.
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