Settlement requires state to provide access to care for Medi-Cal applicants
FAIRFIELD Hundreds of thousands of Californians will soon have speedier access to health care.
That’s thanks to a settlement in a seven-year lawsuit that requires California’s Department of Health Care Services to allow eligible Medi-Cal applicants to receive health coverage right away, subject to later verification of their declared income, according to a Tuesday press release.
The decision came down Monday.
The lawsuit, filed in 2014, sought to end the state’s practice of leaving hundreds of thousands of eligible low-income applicants to wait for months without health care.
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research released findings that may improve health quality and outcomes for high-need, at-risk groups.
UCLA report provides close look at state’s Whole Person Care pilot health program UCLA Center for Health Policy Research | May 11, 2021
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California in 2016 introduced its Whole Person Care program, a pilot project designed to integrate medical, behavioral health and social services for Medi-Cal patients who frequently accessed health services, incurred disproportionately high costs and had poor health outcomes.
With that program scheduled to end next year, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has published a policy brief that presents a detailed overview of the program one the authors say could help inform future efforts to address the needs of high-risk groups.
Findings may inform models to improve health care quality and outcomes for high-need, at-risk groups
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May 11, 2021
California in 2016 introduced its Whole Person Care program, a pilot project designed to integrate medical, behavioral health and social services for Medi-Cal patients who frequently accessed health services, incurred disproportionately high costs and had poor health outcomes.
With that program scheduled to end next year, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has published a policy brief that presents a detailed overview of the initiative one the authors say could help inform future efforts to address the needs of high-risk groups.
The brief highlights several key characteristics of Whole Person Care which comprises 25 local pilot programs covering 26 counties including the populations targeted for enrollment, how each program identified and enrolled eligible individuals, how care coordination teams were structured, the types o
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