Health Care and Coverage

Building a Consumer-Driven Eligibility, Enrollment, and Renewal System

The decisions being made today to implement the ACA will have a greater impact on consumers’ access to health coverage than any made in a generation. As these critical choices are made, this set of recommendations will help ensure that the consumer enrollment experience is user-friendly, integrated, simplified, and modernized across Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, and subsidized Exchange coverage (the insurance affordability programs).
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Low Income Health Program Applications (LIHPs) Summary Report 

California's Section 1115 Medicaid waiver creates the opportunity for counties to develop Low Income Health Programs (LIHPs) to provide coverage for childless adults not otherwise eligible for Medi-Cal, with incomes up to 200 % of the federal poverty level (FPL). This report provides an overview of the counties which have submitted applications as of April 2011.  Download report (PDF)

Richard Thomason Richard Thomason
Director, Health Care and Coverage
Crispin Delgado
Program Officer, Health Care and Coverage

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Chinatown Service Center

The Chinatown Service Center is the largest community-based Chinese-American health and human services organization in Southern California, delivering essential medical, dental, and behavioral health services to the local community in Los Angeles. Read more

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