New ACA Rules, Forms Complicate and Confuse Medi-Cal Renewal Effort

In a California Healthline report by Kelley Weiss, experts discussed the low return rate of Medi-Cal renewal forms, and the more-complicated requirements and sometimes-confusing language of the forms. Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program.

County workers have been struggling with the huge backlog of Medi-Cal applications, and have not yet targeted trying to reach those millions of Medi-Cal enrollees who have not renewed.

The report includes comments from:

Cheryl Davis, the human services director in Placer County;
Anastasia Dodson, the associate director for policy with the California Department of Health Care Services;
Jennifer Flory, senior attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty; and
Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (Weiss, California Healthline, 9/10/14)

You can download a PDF of this report.

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<h1>New ACA Rules, Forms Complicate and Confuse Medi-Cal Renewal Effort</h1>
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<p>In a <em>California Healthline </em>report by Kelley Weiss, experts discussed the low return rate of Medi-Cal renewal forms, and the more-complicated requirements and sometimes-confusing language of the forms. Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program.</p><p>County workers have been struggling with the huge backlog of Medi-Cal applications, and have not yet targeted trying to reach those millions of Medi-Cal enrollees who have not renewed.</p><p>The report includes comments from:</p><ul><li>Cheryl Davis, the human services director in Placer County;</li><li>Anastasia Dodson, the associate director for policy with the California Department of Health Care Services;</li><li>Jennifer Flory, senior attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty; and</li><li>Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (Weiss, <em>California Healthline</em>, 9/10/14)</li></ul><p>You can <a href="https://californiahealthline.org/legacy/BC10F2E3-42DE-4F0F-AD9F-BD6F69D1B2F1">download a PDF</a> of this report.</p><ul><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-aca-rules-forms-complicate-and-confuse-states-medical-renewal-effort/?share=facebook">				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-aca-rules-forms-complicate-and-confuse-states-medical-renewal-effort/?share=linkedin">				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-aca-rules-forms-complicate-and-confuse-states-medical-renewal-effort/?share=x">				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20New%20ACA%20Rules%2C%20Forms%20Complicate%20and%20Confuse%20Medi-Cal%20Renewal%20Effort&body=https%3A%2F%2Fcaliforniahealthline.org%2Fnews%2Fnew-aca-rules-forms-complicate-and-confuse-states-medical-renewal-effort%2F&share=email">				Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-aca-rules-forms-complicate-and-confuse-states-medical-renewal-effort/#print?share=print">				Click to print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li><li>				<a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-aca-rules-forms-complicate-and-confuse-states-medical-renewal-effort/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p>

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