Low Reimbursement Rates May Hinder Medi-Cal Expansion As California prepares to expand Medi-Cal coverage under the federal health reform law, physicians across the state are expressing concern that the program's reimbursement rates are inadequate. July 12, 2012 Medi Cal Medi-Cal reimbursement rate, Medi-Cal Expansion 0 0 Comment Read More »
Elimination of Healthy Families Severely Impact Children’s Access to Care Among a series of budget cuts to help California Gov. Jerry Brown close that state's budget deficit is a cut to a health care program for 880,000 low-income kids, who will be shifted to Medi-Cal after the state shutters its "Healthy Families" program. SFMS/CMA has joined together with over 40 organizations in opposition of the proposal because of the ramifications it would have on California’s most vulnerable children. June 22, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, Medi Cal California state budget cuts, Medi-Cal, Healthy Families 0 0 Comment Read More »
Coalition of Health Care Organizations Issues Joint Letter Opposing Governor's Dual Eligible Proposal In an open letter to members of the California State Legislature, nearly twenty organizations representing a wide variety of health care stakeholders urged their representatives to oppose Governor Brown’s dual eligible proposal. The proposal would move patients eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal into a Medi-Cal Managed Care program, ultimately disrupting care and harming patients. June 13, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, Medi Cal dual eligibles 0 0 Comment Read More »
Urge Your Legislators to Stop Forcing Medicare/Medi-Cal Dual Eligibles Into Managed Care Plans Due to advocacy on the part of the SFMS, CMA, and other stakeholders, the plan to shift Medicare/Medi-Cal “dual eligibles” into a managed care plan has been delayed. In his 2012 budget, Governor Jerry Brown proposed expanding the four county pilot project statewide. SFMS/CMA need your help to stop this expansion. June 7, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, Medi Cal, Medicare, News Medi-Cal, regulatory advocacy, dual eligible, Medicare 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFMS/CMA Oppose Expansion of Dual Eligible Managed Care Pilot Program Governor Jerry Brown continues to push to move all “dual eligibles”—patients covered through both Medi-Cal and Medicare—into managed care. In his revised budget plan, the Governor proposes expanding the four-county pilot project to include eight counties. SFMS and CMA believe the pilot project as currently defined will lead to disruptions in care for the state’s neediest and sickest patients. June 4, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, Medi Cal, Medicare dual eligible, Medicare/Medi-Cal, SB 208 0 0 Comment Read More »
