Know Your Rights: Consumer Health Coverage Info

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Durable Medical Equipment The Basics for California Advocates
DME describes the equipment and supports an individual needs to help with health issues. When figuring out if something is DME, there are three quick clues. First, it must be durable, meaning it has to be reusable. Second, it has to be medical in nature, meaning, it has to be prescribed by someone, generally, a doctor. And third, it has to be some form of equipment, so it cannot be medication or services

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More Patient Protections for Hospital Billing in 2022
Many Californians, whether insured, underinsured, or uninsured, are carrying the burdens of medical debt in their lives, especially after utilizing hospital or emergency care services. Learn more here.
 Jen Flory, Western Center Policy Advocate, & Helen Tran, Western Center Staff Attorney
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Health Care Practice Tip – Accessing Health Care After Surviving a Disaster (January 2025)
After disasters in California, survivors may need extra assistance to access health care. Fortunately, several consumer-friendly protections help survivors access the services, supplies, and care that they need. Read on for special rights and remedies available to survivors seeking prescription drugs, medical supplies and equipment, physician and specialist care, eligibility and coverage, health plan enrollment changes, and more.
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Protect Medicaid Funding Series (2024)
Medicaid helps people live healthier and more economically secure lives. It increases the diagnosis and early treatment of chronic conditions, enhances educational achievement and future earnings for covered children, reduces health care inequities, and provides comprehensive, high-quality, and cost-effective care. In an updated series of fact sheets, NHeLP outlines the importance of Medicaid related to various populations groups and services Medicaid covers. In particular, the fact sheets focus on how funding caps in particular would impact Medicaid. The data from the “Medicaid Fast Facts” document and information from the 14 fact sheets emphasize the vital nature Medicaid plays in ensuring the health of those enrolled as well as their communities and states. A companion blog to this series can be found here.
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Know Your Rights: Access to Health Care for TGI Californians (2026)
National Law Health Program has released this fact sheet on the recent Federal Executive Orders have purported to limit coverage of gender affirming care, especially for Transgender, Gender Diverse, and Intersex (TGI) people, especially youth. Several of these Executive Orders have been challenged in the courts, and parts of them have been enjoined. There is no change to the law in California. Read more here!
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Health Care Practice Tip: Medi-Cal Immigrant Eligibility Changes in 2026
Western Center on Law & Poverty has developed this comprehensive health care practice tip on the Medi-Cal eligibility challenges for immigrants beginning January 1, 2026. Several changes harm people differently depending on their age and immigration status. Until California’s elected officials reverse these harmful cuts, this Practice Tip provides information and strategy ideas to help immigrants access the health care that they need.    
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Upcoming Medi-Cal Cuts Don’t Apply to Immigrant Foster Youth, Nonminor Dependents, and Former Foster Youth (NHeLP, CLC)

National Health Law Program (NHeLP) and the Children’s Law Center (CLC) of California have developed this fact sheet, Upcoming Medi-Cal Cuts Don’t Apply to Immigrant Foster Youth, Nonminor Dependents, and Former Foster Youth. In it, they explain how certain immigrant populations will continue to receive full-scope coverage despite substantial cuts to Medi-Cal eligibility and services for immigrant communities. Foster youth, nonminor dependents, and former foster youth up to age 26 are exempt from these changes. These populations should continue to receive full-scope Medi-Cal without premiums or additional requirements. 

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Medi-Cal Changes for Adult Immigrants in California (2025)
HCA has developed this valuable resource to guide you through the upcoming changes to Medi-Cal that may affect your eligibility as an adult immigrant in California. Translations: Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Farsi, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Note: Additional translations will be provided as they become available.
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Know Your Rights About Medical Bills
In this webinar, Know Your Rights About Medical Bills, expert attorneys from Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles provide critical information when facing potential Medical Debt. This webinar covers important topics such as prioritizing medical bills vs. other bill, what debt collectors can and can't do, how to dispute medical bills, and when to consider settlement or bankruptcy. Download the slides from this presentation, here.
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Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) State Medicaid Agency Contract Toolkit
Justice in Aging’s new resource, Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) State Medicaid Agency Contract Toolkit, provides advocates and State Medicaid Agency policymakers with principles and corresponding template language to develop SMACs that are responsive to the needs of the dually eligible populations that they serve. Stakeholders are encouraged to use this tool to advance their priorities, utilizing and tailoring the components that are most appropriate for their state’s integrated environments.
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