Responding to inquiries from federal officials, the California health department has released a plan it says will dramatically slash its backlog of Medi-Cal applications within six weeks. For months, the state has labored under the largest such pile-up in the country, with 900,000 pending cases reported in May—the combined result of unexpectedly high application numbers […]
A massive backlog of Medi-Cal applications is well into its third month, and California officials have provided little information about how and when the largest such bottleneck in the nation might be cleared. The California Department of Health Care Services in Sacramento first reported 800,000 pending applications in April. By May, that number had grown […]
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Jennifer Guintini was 23 when her teeth started falling out. A habit of sipping on Mountain Dew all day − and later, a seven-year addiction to methamphetamine − caused her teeth to rot away. “Any time I ate or drank anything, it would be a stabbing pain,” recalls Guintini, an unemployed gas station worker. Without […]
EL MONTE, Calif. − Marcy Valenzuela arrived at the Los Angeles County offices before the doors opened, joining a line already several people deep. A former foster child without health coverage for the past four years, Valenzuela was determined to sign up for insurance. But when the 25-year-old Whittier resident handed her Medi-Cal application to […]