Community health centers brace for longer wait times and an increase in uninsured patients ahead of the Medi-Cal changes.
John Baackes, CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan, the public health agency providing Medi-Cal for low-income Angelenos, said there are about 2.65 million people living in LA County on Medicaid — and enrollment grew during the pandemic.
Hunn said one of the key challenges in the process is “having enough resources to help individuals navigate” the redetermination process. CalOptima Health’s board has OK’d $6 million for community-based organizations and clinics to hire up to 100 navigators to assist recipients during the process, Hunn said, as well as guide people through enrolling in Covered California, a health insurance marketplace.
Losing MediCal can be “very impactful” to the families these community health care centers serve, especially as they are also seeing an increase in cost in daily living expenses, said Alex Nunez, the chief growth officer at Neighborhood Healthcare, a community health center chain with clinics across San Diego and Riverside counties.
“They do not refuse service to anybody because of their inability to pay,” said Rossel. “But what we can do is limited.”“We at any given moment have 40-50,000 people of our members on Medicaid who are unhoused,” Baackes said. “If you are unhoused, your mail goes to the Department of Public Social Services so that’s a huge problem.”to address the challenge: “When they are with a homeless client they can alert them to the process.
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