{"id":64406,"date":"2024-05-02T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=64406"},"modified":"2024-05-02T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T17:55:08","slug":"one-year-after-medi-cal-renewals-health-care-expanded-for-californians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=64406","title":{"rendered":"One Year After Medi-Cal Renewals, Health Care Expanded for Californians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/span>Selen Ozturk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A year ago, with the end of the federal COVID emergency, California started redetermining eligibility for the one out of three of its residents on Medi-Cal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A year ago, with the end of the federal COVID-19 emergency, California started redetermining eligibility for the one out of three of its residents on Medi-Cal, its version of Medicaid.<\/p>\n

At a time when many states are using this process to drop Medicaid members from the rolls en masse \u2014 Texas, for instance, has removed over two million members since the pandemic-era protections were lifted, while Florida has removed nearly one million \u2014 California is on the front line of efforts not only to retain but expand health coverage.<\/p>\n

At an Ethnic Media Services Briefing, a state Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) official, community health care enrollment workers and Medi-Cal enrollees shared how redetermination has impacted enrollment, efforts to keep eligible members enrolled and the importance of keeping Medi-Cal services.<\/p>\n

An overview of the unwinding<\/h2>\n

The nationwide redetermination of Medicaid, known as \u201cthe great\u00a0unwinding<\/a>,\u201d is \u201cone of the biggest healthcare events after the Affordable Care Act,\u201d said Yingjia Huang, DHCS Assistant Deputy Director of Health Care Benefits and Eligibility. \u201cIt ends next month, in May 2024. California was able to renew and is continuing to renew nearly 15 million Medi-Cal members \u2014 and we\u2019ve learned quite a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

In November 2023, with 1 million Californians up for renewal that month, the state had a 21 percent disenrollment rate, whether due to ineligibility or errors with returning paperwork.<\/p>\n

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