Tag: Medicaid

Help People With Disabilities Keep Their Medi-Cal Coverage!

The Medi-Cal continuous coverage mandate will end on March 31, 2023. On April 1, county offices throughout California will restart eligibility renewals to determine if current recipients still qualify for free or low-cost Medi-Cal.

Individuals with disabilities are at an increased risk of losing or experiencing a gap in coverage due to upcoming changes in completing the renewal process.

The California Department of Health Care Services has created valuable resources that you can share with your stakeholders, community partners, family, and friends to help ensure that people with disabilities have access and the information needed to keep their Medi-Cal coverage.

Click HERE to view resource toolkit.

Medicaid and CHIP Provider Relief Fund Application has been extended to August 3

On June 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the distribution of approximately $15 billion from the Provider Relief Fund to eligible providers that participate in state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – Including regional center providers – and have not received a payment from the Provider Relief Fund General Distribution. The payment to each provider will be approximately 2 percent of reported gross revenue from services provided. The deadline was extended because only approximately 5% of eligible service providers had applied by the original deadline.

Initially there was confusion whether or not service providers that bill regional centers are eligible since they don’t bill Medicaid directly; however, the California Department of Health Care Services confirmed that a list of more than 17,000 providers of Regional Center services was submitted to CMS for eligibility.

A new FAQ with instructions for application is at: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/provider-relief-fund-medicaid-chip-factsheet.pdf.

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