Kevin Knauss: Health, History, Travel, Insurance
Posts related to how California MAGI Medi-Cal works, especially with Covered California, enrollment, termination, household income.
While most people are thrilled with the ability to get affordable health insurance through Covered California, others are trying to avoid the premium free health insurance being offered. Specifically, some families and individuals are trying to figure out how to avoid having either their children or their family automatically enrolled in Medi-Cal. Inflating the income of the household is one way side step automatic enrollment in Medi-Cal health plans.
Covered California hosted another webinar to provide a progress update of the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment and Retention System (CalHEERS) website. In short, this is the website Californians will use to enroll in one of the qualified health plans offered in their area through Covered California.
California residents were invited to ask questions about the new Covered California health plans in a live chat held through Facebook this past Thursday. Ken Wood, Senior Advisor for Products, Marketing and Health Plan Relationships for Covered California, answered 47 questions over 90 minutes. While fourteen of the questions dealt with different aspects of the health plans being offered, the bulk of the questions focused on income requirements for the tax credits and coverage options for different family scenarios.
California in 2010 had 101,854 nursing facility residents, 68% on Medi-Cal, in 1,229 facilities. Cuts could force many to move.
Medicaid provides a “wrap-around” benefit for medications such as: antidepressants, atypical antipsychotics, antiretrovirals used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS
