DHS Mails Letters Informing Dual Eligibles of Change in Drug Coverage

The Department of Health Services last week completed a mailing of letters to notify 937,000 beneficiaries who are dually eligible for Medi-Cal and Medicare that their prescription drug coverage will be shifted from Medi-Cal to Medicare beginning Jan. 1, 2006, the Sacramento Bee reports. Dual eligibles who do not enroll in a Medicare prescription drug plan will be automatically assigned to a plan by federal officials.

The letters were sent in:

• Armenian;
  
  
• Cambodian;
  
  
• Chinese;
  
  
• English;
  
  
• Farsi;
  
  
• Hmong;
  
  
• Korean;
  
  
• Laotian;
  
  
• Russian;
  
  
• Spanish;
  
  
• Tagalog; and
  
  
• Vietnamese.