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The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services on Thursday approved a $73 million in the revised state budget to help clear a backlog of 900,000 Medi-Cal applicants and make system and capacity improvements to the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment and Retention System, also known as CalHEERS.
“This adjustment reflects an extended development and implementation phase to build critical system functionality to meet federal and state requirements, and programmatic timelines with respect to the implementation of health care reform,” said the budget analysis.
The proposal, which increases the total system cost to $160 million, will allocate funding for the Office of Systems Integration (OSI) to make improvements, reimbursed by Covered California and the Department of Health Care Services, according to Matt Schueller (pictured above), budget officer for OSI.
