The California Medical Assistance Program (Medi-Cal or MediCal) is the California implementation of the federal Medicaid program serving low-income individuals, including families, seniors, persons with disabilities, children in foster care, pregnant women, and childless adults with incomes below 138% of federal poverty level. Benefits include ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance use disorder treatment, dental (Denti-Cal), vision, and long-term care and support.[1] Medi-Cal was created in 1965 by the California Medical Assistance Program a few months after the national legislation was passed.[2] Approximately 15.28 million people were enrolled in Medi-Cal as of September 2022,[3] or about 40% of California's population; in most counties, more than half of eligible residents were enrolled as of 2020.[4]
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- ^ "Fast Facts - December 2022 (Date Represented: September 2022)" (PDF). DHCS. December 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ California Department of Health Care Services (January 2016). "Proportion of California Population Certified Eligible for Medi-Cal By County and Age Group – September 2015" (PDF). Medi-Cal Statistical Brief. Retrieved 2017-05-29.