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- November 19, 2020
California Policy Needs During COVID and Beyond: Due Process
Read moreMedi-Cal is a lifeline for Californians during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). Among the many crucial benefits of Medi-Cal, beneficiaries have strong due process protections including the right to written notices, an appeal of denials, and a hearing. These protections ensure that beneficiaries have meaningful rights to challenge…
- November 10, 2020
California Policy Needs During COVID and Beyond: Reproductive and Sexual Health
Read moreCOVID-19 has changed the landscape for reproductive and sexual health care services, delivery, and access. As has been the case across the board, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare racial and socioeconomic inequities, and in many cases exacerbated them. At the same time, the challenges raised by the pandemic…
- May 28, 2020
Schwartz v. Cal DHCS, Superior Court of California
Abbi Coursolle and Kimberly Lewis CasesRead moreAn adult California Medicaid (Medi-Cal) beneficiary is challenging the California Department of Health Care Services and her county Mental Health Plan after she experienced a mental health crisis and was turned away from evaluation and subsequent treatment without appropriate notice. The Plaintiff alleges that she was denied medically necessary…
- December 18, 2019
Advocate Fact Sheet: Evaluating Mental Health Plans’ Provision of Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services
Read moreMedi-Cal beneficiaries in California receive mental health services through two separate managed care systems. Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans (MCPs) are responsible for providing non-specialty mental health services and County Mental Health Plans (MHPs) are responsible for providing specialty mental health services (SMHS). This bifurcated system often serves as a…
- March 15, 2019
Advocate Fact Sheet: Monitoring Plan’s Provision of Mental Health services to Medi-Cal Beneficiaries
Read moreCalifornia has two managed care plans that are responsible for providing mental health care to beneficiaries of Med-Cal, the state's Medicaid program. Senior Attorney Abigail Coursolle, in this fact sheet, provides guidance and tools for California health care advocates to monitor and ensure that the state's managed care plans…
- January 24, 2019
Substance Use Disorders in Medi-Cal: An Overview
Read moreSignificant obstacles remain for low-income individuals and historically underserved communities throughout the country, such as California. Staff Attorney Héctor Hernández-Delgado examines California's efforts to provide quality care for people with substance use disorders (SUD), and provides an overview of the services that health are services provided through the state's Medicaid…