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Medi-Cal to Delay Provider Payments in June



The California Department of Health Care Services announced it would delay payments for two weeks in June so that those claims are paid out of the 2014-2015 fiscal year budget. This “checkwrite” delay will impact providers as outlined below.

Fee-for-service provider payments

Payments to providers who render services through Medi-Cal funded programs that are scheduled for the June 19, 2014, checkwrite will be deferred to July 3, 2014. Programs impacted include:

  • Medi-Cal (which includes Family PACT)
  • Child Health and Disability Prevention
  • Abortion

Fee-for-service provider payments (including state-only programs)

Payments to providers who render services through Medi-Cal and state-funded programs that are scheduled for the June 26, 2014, checkwrite will be deferred to July 3, 2014. Programs impacted include:

  • Medi-Cal (which includes Family PACT)
  • Child Health and Disability Prevention
  • Abortion
  • Healthy Families
  • California Children’s Services (CCS-state only, CCS-Healthy Families, CCS-Medi-Cal)
  • Genetically Handicapped Persons Program (GHPP-state only, GHPP-Medi-Cal)

Payments to the Every Woman Counts program are excluded from all June checkwrite holds.

Click here to view the announcement from California Department of Health Care Services.



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