Industry Resources | April 15, 2013
California DHCS Healthy Families Program Transition to Medi-Cal Monitoring Report & Summary April 15, 2013
April 15, 2013
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is transitioning about 800,000 children from its Healthy Families Program (HFP) to Medi- Cal, the state's Medicaid program. The transitions started in January 2013. To monitor the process, DHCS releases a monthly update report about issues encountered. In this report, DHCS noted that some children diagnosed with autism lost access to applied behavior analysis (ABA) services after transitioning because although the HFP plans were required to comply with the state's autism insurance mandate and provide ABA as part of . . .