By: Kim Lewis and dfitzgerald
Lessons from CA: Halting the Medi-Cal Application Backlog in Court
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Lessons from CA: Halting the Medi-Cal Application Backlog in Court
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Executive Summary
In this month’s Lessons from California, we highlight California legal advocates’ successes in forcing the State to comply with the laws for processing Medicaid applications in a timely manner, and making the State send a notice to applicants when it fails to meet the 45-day processing deadline.