But it’s hard to know for you sure if patient access to Medi-Cal is an issue without the data. Kristen Golden Testa, director of the California health program for The Children’s Partnership, hopes the state will survey providers to see how they handled the influx of patients to Medi-Cal from Healthy Families.
“We’re not anywhere where we know if there is an impact with a reduced private network with this population,” she said.
