Stay Covered:

Tools to Protect Medi-Cal for People Experiencing or At Risk of Homelessness

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Stay Covered Toolkit

The Stay Covered Toolkit will enable health, housing, and homeless services providers to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness get and keep their Medi-Cal. It includes an overview of the new H.R.1 rules and how it will impact Medi-Cal coverage for people experiencing homelessness; tools for health, housing, and homeless services providers to use when interacting with their clients and patients; and actions that different types of providers can take to help unhoused members stay covered.

Access the full Toolkit below, or scroll down to read about specific sections. You can also jump to our stand-alone fact sheets that provide a much deeper dive into some of the topics raised in the Toolkit and strategies that particular types of providers can take to mitigate coverage loss.

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Part 1: The Complicated Basics

Part 1 is designed to help health, housing, and homeless services providers understand the basics of these policy changes and how they impact people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, including people in supportive housing. It covers:

  • what Medi-Cal is and what’s changing

  • who must meet the new work requirements and who could be excused

  • how medical frailty works under the new rules

  • how applications and renewals work

Find Part 1 on page # of the Toolkit, or read a brief overview of Part 1 here.

Stay Covered guide page titled “Tools to Protect Medi-Cal for People Experiencing or At Risk of Homelessness,” Part 2: Deep Dives, with section links, a self-attestation notice, and an illustration of two people connecting.

Part 2: Deep Dives

Part 2 includes practical guidance that health, homelessness, and housing providers can use on a daily basis to support their clients. Learn how to help a client be excused from or meet the requirements, how to respond if a client falls out of compliance, and how connect clients to work, community service, job training, and education.

Find Part 2 on page # of the Toolkit.

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Part 3: How to Help

Part 3 offers actions that different types of providers can take to help their clients and patients stay covered. You’ll find specific mitigation strategies for health, housing, and homeless service providers and systems; managed care plans; recuperative care providers; health centers; street medicine providers; and hospitals. It also covers how to help people with disabilities get Medi-Cal through SSI/SSDI or other disability programs.

Find Part 3 on page # of the Toolkit.

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Fact Sheets

The Stay Covered Coalition has stand-alone fact sheets that provide a much deeper dive into some of the topics raised in the Toolkit and strategies that particular types of providers can take to mitigate coverage loss. These are linked below.

  • Infographic titled “Lessons for Health Centers on the Impact of H.R.1,” explaining Medicaid work requirements, health center implications, key takeaways, and renewal reminders.

    Health Centers

    Lessons for Health Centers on the Impact of H.R.1

    View Factsheet
  • Informational flyer explaining Medicaid work requirements, exemptions, and recuperative care programs, with key takeaways and a heart-shaped medical illustration

    Recuperative Care

    The Value and Role of Recuperative Care Programs/Staff in Retaining Medi-Cal for their Clients

    View Factsheet
  • Infographic explaining how Medi-Cal managed care plans help members experiencing or at risk of homelessness, with text and an illustration of adults under a protective umbrella with a heart.

    Managed Care Plans

    How Managed Care Plans Can Help Their Members Experiencing or At Risk of Homelessness

    View Factsheet
  • Cover page of a California Street Medicine Collaborative factsheet explaining how street medicine can mitigate the harm of H.R. 1 for unsheltered people in California.

    Street Medicine

    How Street Medicine Can Mitigate the Harm of H.R.1 on Unsheltered People in California

    View Factsheet
  • Fact sheet explaining how people with disabilities can get or keep Medi-Cal coverage through SSI/SSDI and other disability programs

    Disability Programs

    How to Help People with Disabilities Get or Keep Medi-Cal Coverage through SSI/SSDI or Other Disability Programs

    View Factsheet