Tag: Medi-Cal Enrollment

  • Complaints Alleging Poor Access to Care Prompt Medi-Cal Audit

    By Kenny Goldberg More than 7 million people who have Medi-Cal coverage are enrolled in managed care plans. Lawmakers have ordered an audit because they say they’ve received numerous complaints from Medi-Cal patients who are having trouble getting care. California health officials say they haven’t found many problems. But a recent examination by the California…

  • State Officials Pledge to Reduce Medi-Cal Backlog

    By Kenny Goldberg California officials have laid out their plans to cut a backlog of Medi-Cal applications in a letter to the federal government. Officials say they’re concentrating on fixing computer problems that have hindered the efforts of county eligibility workers to communicate with the state’s new healthcare enrollment system. Medi-Cal applications are supposed to…