California Medicaid Program Preparing To Launch Whole Person Care Pilot Testing Housing & Support Service Models

By May 1, 2016, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) plans to release an application for counties seeking to participate in the state’s new Medi-Cal 2020 waiver Whole Person Care (WPC) pilot program that may test interventions that provide both housing and supportive services. The WPC pilots will focus on groups of high-risk and high-utilizer people who have or are at risk of repeated incidents of avoidable emergency use or hospital admissions. The goal is to help communities address social determinants of health for vulnerable beneficiaries in a way that results in better coordination . . .