On April 24, the county mailed more than 26,000 Medi-Cal renewal packets to San Diego County’s neediest residents whose health insurance coverage started in the month of June. So far, only about 2,400 of those packets have been returned.
Medicaid — called Medi-Cal in the Golden State — is last-resort health insurance for Americans in need, and it has been requiring recipients to prove that they qualify for benefits annually since the program first started in 1965. But that tradition stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic. The idea was to remove all barriers to coverage at a time when many were losing jobs due to stay-at-home orders.
That’s about 15 million who will have to go through the process in California; about 1 million live in San Diego County.County administration offices are sending out renewal packets on a month-by-month basis that is organized around the month in which a beneficiary’s Medi-Cal coverage first started. Those with start dates in June, regardless of particular year, are the first in California to start receiving packets.
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