Medi-Cal Plan

What is Medi-Cal?

Medi-Cal is a public program that provides health care coverage to adults, families, older adults, and people with disabilities who meet the income requirements.
 

What is Medi-Cal Managed Care?

  • Medi-Cal Managed Care provides high quality, accessible, and cost-effective health care through managed care delivery systems. 
  • Medi-Cal Managed Care contracts for health care services through established networks of organized systems of care, which emphasize primary and preventive care.  
  • Managed care plans are a cost-effective use of health care resources that improve health care access and assure quality of care.
     

Who can apply?

  • People who live in Los Angeles County;
  • People who are a parent, child, adults without children, older adults or disabled; 
  • People who meet the income guidelines; and
  • People under the age of 26 or those 50 and older, regardless of their immigration status
  • Beginning January 1, 2024, a new law in California will allow adults ages 26 through 49 to qualify for full-scope Medi-Cal, regardless of immigration status. All other Medi-Cal eligibility rules, including income limits, will still apply.

 

How much will I pay?

Medi-Cal with L.A. Care is free for families who qualify. There are no monthly premiums or co-pays.

 

What health plan can I choose?

When you join L.A. Care, you can choose to get your health care from L.A. Care or one of the other excellent Plan Partners we work with to provide Medi-Cal coverage in L.A. County. These include Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan.