Was Live Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | 11am PST
Guest Speakers
• Yingjia Huang, Assistant Deputy Director, Health Care Benefits and Eligibility (HCBE), California Department of Health Care Services
• Vilma Champion, Director, Managed Care and Enrollment, Northeast Valley Health Corporation (NEVHC)
• Jesus Velasco, Enrollment Director, Clinica Romero
• Fitzgerald Graves, Medi-Cal enrollee, African American Network of Kern County
• Dara Montejo, daughter of newly enrolled undocumented mother
Event Overview
A year ago, California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) launched a federally mandated annual initiative to redetermine Medicaid eligibility (called Medi-Cal in California). With one out of three residents on Medi-Cal, the state’s goal has been to keep as many people enrolled as possible at a time when many other states were using “the great unwinding” to purge their Medicaid lists.
At this briefing, a DHCS expert will share the data on how redetermination has impacted Medi-Cal enrollment numbers, and plans for Medi-Cal moving forward. The director of one health clinic in LA County, which has the most Medi-Cal enrollees in California, will discuss its ongoing efforts to assist eligible recipients to stay on Medi-Cal and re-enroll if they were dropped. Three storytellers will discuss the importance of Medi-Cal to their families and share their experience getting or keeping it.
