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21 California Health Care for Indigents Program. This program provides funding to large counties for uncompensated hospital, physician, and other health service costs.

To be eligible for California Health Care for Indigents funds, counties must meet their Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirement, and provide or arrange for follow-up medical treatment for children with health problems and/or medical disorders detected through the CHDP program.

Rural Health Services (RHS). RHS provides funding to small rural counties for uncompensated hospital, physician, and other health services costs. This is not the same as the Rural Health Demonstration Project.

To be eligible, counties must participate in the County Medical Services Program, meet their MOE requirement, and provide or arrange for follow-up medical treatment for children with health problems and/or medical disorders detected through the CHDP program.

Counties may contract with the DHCS for the rural counties’ obligation to provide follow-up treatment for the conditions identified in CHDP screens.

Seasonal Agricultural and Migratory Workers Health Program. This program provides financial and technical assistance to primary care clinics serving the needs of seasonal, agricultural, and migratory workers and their families. Individuals pay on a sliding scale.

California Children’s Services (CCS). CCS provides funding for medical care for eligible low-income families with children with serious medical problems, such as critical acute illnesses, chronic illnesses, genetic diseases, physical handicaps, major injuries due to violence and accidents, congenital defects, and neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit level conditions. It provides physician, hospital, laboratory, X-ray, rehabilitation services, medications, and medical case management.

To be eligible, individuals must be under 21years of age, have a medical condition covered by CCS, be a resident of the county, have an adjusted gross family income below $40,000 or a projected out-of-pocket medical cost greater than twenty percent of the family income.

Direct health services are frequently provided through community health centers, school based health centers and voluntary practitioner programs.

Type of coverage breaks out in the following manner for children in California: • Employer coverage is 45 percent, • Non-group coverage is 7 percent,