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For optometrists, Newsom is proposing to raise rates to match those paid by Medicare, the federal government’s health insurance program for people 65 and older. That could mean California’s ...
UPDATE: A spokesperson for the federal Center for Medicare & Medicaid Service said California has since returned the $52 million cited in the inspector general's report.
Medi-Cal. The California Medical Assistance Program ( Medi-Cal or MediCal) is the California implementation of the federal Medicaid program serving low-income individuals, including families, seniors, persons with disabilities, children in foster care, pregnant women, and childless adults with incomes below 138% of federal poverty level.
A newly released report recommends the state refund the federal government $53.4 million. California made $71M worth of unallowable Medicaid payments to dead people Skip to main content
With a population of nearly 40 million as of 2018, California has by far the largest annual state expenditures albeit lower on a per-capita basis than 20 smaller states. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] California receives a significant amount of money from the federal government, especially for healthcare and welfare programs , but also has large in-state ...
In November 2004, voters in the U.S. state of California passed Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act ( MHSA ), which has been designed to expand and transform California's county mental health service systems. The MHSA is funded by imposing an additional one percent tax on individual, but not corporate, taxable income in excess of one ...
Health care providers have been clamoring for California’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, to pay them more. But California doesn’t have extra money thanks to back-to-back multibillion-dollar budget deficits. To pay doctors more, Newsom and the state Legislature chose to raise taxes — but not in the way you might think.
More than half of children in California rely on Medi-Cal — the California Medicaid program — for their health insurance coverage, including 1.4 million children 5 and under.