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A building occupied by the California Department of Health Care Services. A December 2014 audit of the DHCS's Medi-Cal dental care program (Denti-Cal) by the California State Auditor reported that: "Information shortcomings and ineffective actions" by DHCS are putting child beneficiaries at higher risk of dental disease.
The DMHC Help Center provides direct assistance in all languages to health care consumers through the Department’s website, www.HealthHelp.ca.gov, and a toll-free phone number, 1-888-466-2219. Mary Watanabe is currently the director of the DMHC. The DMHC is part of the California Health and Human Services Agency. It was established in 2000 ...
Health Services ran the free health care programs Healthy Way LA and My Health LA from 2007 until 2024, when eligibility and access to California's health care program, Medi-Cal, was expanded. [4] In Fiscal Year 2015–16, Health Services provided healthcare services to over 643,856 unique patients during 2,457,174 patient visits. [5]
Medi-Cal was created in 1965 by the California Medical Assistance Program a few months after the national legislation was passed. [2] Approximately 15.28 million people were enrolled in Medi-Cal as of September 2022, [3] or about 40% of California's population; in most counties, more than half of eligible residents were enrolled as of 2020. [4]
Ghaly earned his doctorate of medicine degree from Harvard Medical School and a master of public health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. [ 2 ] CHHS was created from a reorganization of other California agencies, including the California Health and Welfare Agency which included the California Department of Health Services.
L.A. Care Health Plan (Local Initiative Health Authority for Los Angeles County) was created in 1997 by the State of California to provide health care services for Medi-Cal managed care beneficiaries, uninsured children and other vulnerable populations in Los Angeles County. [3]
CCS is administered by Children's Medical Services in the Department of Health Services (DHCS). For providers to see patients covered by CCS, they must be approved by the state CCS program to be considered a CCS paneled provider. [6] CCS provides the following support services. [6] Assist in treatment costs related to the CCS condition.
After the passage of the ACA, 32 states used the funding of the ACA to expand their state's low-income insurance programs, such as Medi-Cal, and 19 states opted out. The 19 states, as of 2014, had a 15% higher poverty rate than the 32 states that chose to expand their services. California was one of the states to expand its Medicaid program. [6]