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Transition of Healthy Families to Medi-Cal Webinar Impact to WIC

Transition of Healthy Families to Medi-Cal Webinar Impact to WIC. March 25, 2013 3:00 – 4:00 pm. Barbara Longo, MS, RD Deputy Division Chief Nutrition and Local Program Services California Women, Infants and Children Program. Healthy Families Transition to Medi -Cal. Session Outline.

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Transition of Healthy Families to Medi-Cal Webinar Impact to WIC

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  1. Transition of Healthy Families to Medi-Cal WebinarImpact to WIC March 25, 2013 3:00 – 4:00 pm Barbara Longo, MS, RD Deputy Division Chief Nutrition and Local Program Services California Women, Infants and Children Program

  2. Healthy Families Transition to Medi-Cal Session Outline Changes in the Healthy Families Program (HFP) Estimated number of HFP children under 5 Estimated number of HFP children already on WIC Are HFP children adjunctively eligible for WIC? Outreach Opportunities

  3. Changes to the Healthy Families Program • Assembly Bill 1494 (Chapter 28, Statutes of 2012) eliminates the Healthy Families Program • All California children currently enrolled in the HFP will transition to the Medi-Cal Program • http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/Pages/HealthyFamiliesTransition.aspx • http://www.mrmib.ca.gov/ • http://www.chc-inc.org/downloads/CAA%20Profile.pdf

  4. Number of Healthy Families Children under 5 years of age There are approximately 145,000 WIC aged children that are being transitioned from HFP to Medi-Cal

  5. Healthy Families Children already on WIC We estimate that there approximately 60,000 HFP children already on WIC. However, this number is probably much higher based on how we collect information in ISIS.

  6. Adjunctive Eligibility Check code

  7. Adjunctive Eligibility Abbreviated version WIC Federal Regulations (7 CFR 246.7) Adjunct or automatic income eligibility The State agency shall accept as income-eligible for the Program any applicant who is certified as fully eligible or presumptively eligible pending completion of eligibility for medical assistance under a Title XIX of the Social Security Act program.

  8. Adjunctive Eligibility When a Healthy Families beneficiary transitions to Medi-Cal, they become adjunctively eligible. Until they are transitioned into Medi-Cal, you will still need to verify their income. All Healthy Families beneficiaries should be transitioned to Medi-Cal by December 2013.

  9. Healthy Families new Medi-Cal Aid Codes New Aid Codes: 5C, 5D, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 These codes have already been programmed in ISIS Medi-Cal may be adding new aid codes; if so, we will be notified and will update ISIS immediately

  10. WIC Response Outreach Referral Enrollment

  11. WIC Response Outreach Participated in Medi-Cal Webinars with the CAAs and EEs WIC information was included in the Welcome letter to all transitioning beneficiaries Created an outreach flyer

  12. Questions? Please send questions or comments to: Barbara Longo at barbara.longo@cdph.ca.gov Or Jo Ann Vasquez at joann.vasquez@cdph.ca.gov Thank you!

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