The county government is often the place of last resort for the medically indigent in California. Some counties run hospitals and/or clinics to care for these individuals outside of the Medicaid system. Other counties operate their own HMO to cover Medicaid patients. As I previously described, there are three types of private Medi-Cal HMO systems that California counties can adopt: Geographic Managed Care, County-Organized Health System, and Two Plan Counties. In many of these systems, counties operate their own Medicaid HMO.
The county government is often the place of last resort for the medically indigent in California. Some counties run hospitals and/or clinics to care for these individuals outside of the Medicaid system. Other counties operate their own HMO to cover Medicaid patients. As I previously described, there are three types of private Medi-Cal HMO systems that California counties can adopt: Geographic Managed Care, County-Organized Health System, and Two Plan Counties. In many of these systems, counties operate their own Medicaid HMO.
A recent California Health Care Foundation study, looks at how different counties care for their poor. This table summarizes those findings.