$28 Million Los Angeles County Medicaid Citizenship Verification Effort Finds No Illegal Immigrants on Its Medi-Cal Rolls

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News Los Angeles County has received nearly $28 million in state and federal funds since July 2008 to verify the citizenship of Medi-Cal applicants as required by Medicaid. Although county workers have checked the documents of more than 100,000 Medi-Cal recipients, the workers found no illegal immigrants receiving benefits. In addition, less than one percent of applicants between July 2008 and February 2009 lacked the proper documents. The citizenship verification rules are part of the 2005 federal Deficit Reduction Act, which requires Medicaid applicants in all states to present . . .