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42 the two programs, and encourage families to apply for continuing coverage. • To facilitate the application process, Medi-Cal outstations eligibility workers in locations that serve large numbers of potentially eligible children, such as disproportionate share hospitals, prenatal clinics and federally qualified health centers. • DHCS utilizes a Single Streamlined Application, which can be used for both CHIP and the Medi-Cal program.

Guidance: The State may address the coordination between the public-private outreach and the public health programs that is occurring statewide. This section will provide a historic record of the steps the State is taking to identify and enroll all uninsured children from the time the State’s plan was initially approved. States do not have to rewrite his section but may instead update this section as appropriate.

5.1.2. (formerly 2.2.2.) The steps the State is currently taking to identify and enroll all uninsured children who are eligible to participate in health insurance programs that involve a public-private partnership:

CA REPSONSE:

Historical

POPULATION 1/CCHIP

Historically, since CCHIP projects were sponsored and funded from local funds, there were financial incentives built in for local counties to assure coordination with Medi-Cal and HFP. More children could be covered at the county level using local dollars if they were not financially sponsoring children who could otherwise be covered by state and federal dollars. In 2014, California transferred the funding source from local entities to the state.

Other standards that were put in place to identify and enroll all children were: • CCHIP used the same income standards and deductions as the Medi-Cal and HFP to assure consistency among the programs. • CCHIP used a resource disregard when determining eligibility, again to assure consistency with the Medi-Cal and HFP. • At the time of initial application, a Medi-Cal and Healthy Families screening occurred. Applications with children screened to Medi-Cal or Healthy Families were submitted to the State’s Single Point of Entry for processing. • As with the initial eligibility determination, annual reviews occurred to assure continued eligibility for CCHIP, including the Medi-Cal and Healthy Families