As the federal government has rolled back rules that helped people hang on to Medicaid during the COVID-19 pandemic, health providers fear the fallout could be disastrous for patients
. The federal rules had prevented states from booting people from the program, even if changes such as a bump in income would otherwise make them ineligible.
Community clinics say that many patients are also dealing with long waits for help from L.A. County, which they expect will only worsen with millions of people countywide Many Angelenos could have their Medi-Cal automatically renewed as the county checks information against a federal database for other government programs. At a recent meeting of the county Board of Supervisors, department director
“Because of all these struggles with the online system, people eventually end up calling, which also crowds the lines,” said Dina Dimirjian, staff attorney with the Health Consumer Center at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County. After some back-and-forth, Sanchez put Ibarra-Figueroa back on the line to make sense of what she was being told. “I understand the process regarding that,” Ibarra-Figueroa said on the phone. “But due to the pandemic protections, she shouldn’t have been cut off anyways.”
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