A judge has ruled that Los Angeles County wrongly canceled Medi-Cal coverage for thousands of residents, often leaving them without access to health care and needed medicines.
LA County braces for crowded hospitals as Medi-Cal expandsMelissa Evans
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Medi-Cal is the state of California's Medicaid program, and it is often thought of as a service only available to those struggling desperately with finances. However, you have funded Medi-Cal with your tax dollars, and you have the legal right to make us
“Our PRP grants are currently funding 142 physicians working in the L.A. County safety net,” said John Baackes, chief executive officer of LA Care. “These physicians offer health care access to the most vulnerable populations in the county – those on Medi-Cal or the uninsured....
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Before these changes, Medi-Cal recipients had a harder time securing medication and supplies than people with private insurance, Murdock said. “Diabetes is a really heartbreaking and costly disease, and to take care of themselves, people with diabetes need easy access to insulin, but also the ...
Care Health Plan, a publicly run insurer primarily serving low-income Los Angeles County residents on Medi-Cal. It is by far the largest Medi-Cal plan in the state. Baackes, 78, who will retire at the end of the year, helped transform L.A. Care into a major market player...
Medi-Cal would not pay O’Brien’s bill at Kaiser if there was no possibility of rehabilitation, so within a month he was shipped off again--to Fairmont Hospital in San Leandro, a large county-owned hospital that provided nursing care for quadriplegics. “They had a polio ward and people...