A game changer for street medicine: key takeaways from new Medi-Cal guidelines
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (California HealthCare Foundation)
- Contributor(s):
- California HealthCare Foundation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Oakland, California] : California Health Care Foundation, December 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Delivery of Health Care -- methods Ill-Housed Persons Medicaid -- organization & administration Insurance, Health, Reimbursement California
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Street medicine is a critical but underutilized model for delivering health care to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness and connecting them to social services, including housing. In November 2022, California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) released an All Plan Letter that provides new guidance to Medi-Cal managed care plans that will make it easier for communities to establish, maintain, and fully leverage street medicine programs. This issue brief lays out the major implications of this new policy, as well as key issues that remain.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (5 pages)).
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918557484406676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918557484406676