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Medi-Cal basics for Certified Agents

Medi-Cal basics for Certified Agents.

Medi-Cal basics for Certified Agents.

Medi-Cal basics for Certified Agents.

Medi-Cal basics for Certified Agents.

Throughout the past year of enrolling individuals and families into the Covered California health plans, Certified Insurance Agents were in the dark when it came to Medi-Cal. The Department of Health Care Services held a webinar on July 31st to review of the essential basics of the Medi-Cal program. Even if you only review the power point slides in the PDF document, youll get a feel for how big the Medi-Cal program is and the variety of programs that your clients might be eligible for.

Department of Health Care Services Medi-Cal Essentials presentation

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Agent compensation for Medi-Cal

The big question was, Will Certified Insurance Agents be paid for enrolling individuals and households into Medi-Cal? While the answers from the hosts on the webinar were a little fuzzy, the bottom line is that agents should receive some reimbursement this year. A brief overview of the presentation concluded –

Viewing the Medi-Cal basics webinar

http://hbex.coveredca.com/agents/webinars/

Select view Medi-Cal Essentials Webinar July 31st 2014

If you open the webinar in Windows Media Player I found the audio to be garbled. When I switched to Adobe Flash Player by clicking on an icon within the Covered California web page, the audio portion greatly improved in quality.

What are the basics of Medi-Cal

The presentation covered the following topics.

Counties play an important role in Medi-Cal

Medi-Cal is as big and complicated as Covered California. I wish they would have had this presentation before open enrollment. The one element it lacked was a greater discussion of how Medi-Cal eligible beneficiaries interact with their county social services case worker. These are the folks that really make the determinations if an adult is Medi-Cal eligible. Ive had San Diego County reject an adult applicant after Covered California said the individual was eligible. So there are still some mysteries and questions that werent cleared up by the webinar.

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