One of the major changes for Californians under the Affordable Care Act has been the expansion of eligibility for Medi-Cal<\/a>, the state\u2019s Medicaid program. In fact, Medi-Cal now covers 1 in 3 Californians. The surprising thing about the program is how Medi-Cal saves lives and saves the state money. For one thing, just by having insurance, people are more likely to go to the doctor when a problem is manageable, rather than waiting for a crisis and going to the emergency room. Not only is it better for patients to be seen earlier, but it\u2019s also less expensive than emergency treatment.<\/p>\n

The California Health Insurance Program Helps Low-Income Residents<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Another way that Medi-Cal saves lives<\/a> while saving money is Hospital Presumptive Eligibility. This means that if an uninsured patient comes to a public hospital seeking treatment, he or she can be temporarily enrolled in Medi-Cal. This allows the patient to access full care while the application is processed. This is helpful in several ways. First, patients can get emergency treatment and get follow-up care. Second, hospitals will be compensated under the California health insurance program. The program is largely responsible for the fact that the state now has only 7.1% of the population uninsured. Finally, once insured, patients are more likely to seek care with their regular doctor rather than the emergency room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On behalf of Lisa Bryant of The Law Offices of Lisa C. Bryant, Inc. posted in Medi-Cal Planning on Monday, May 29nd, 2017.<\/p>\n

Medi-Cal saves the state money. It also saves lives. Learn more about the top 3 reasons Medi-Cal saves lives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-home","category-medi-cal-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}