Florida Moves To Manage Health Care For Foster Kids
Plan seeks to close gaps for more than 30,000 kids in the state's child welfare system.
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Plan seeks to close gaps for more than 30,000 kids in the state's child welfare system.
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration's Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Map shows there are 31,600 children eligible for the new specialty plan designed for those in the child welfare system across 11 regions.
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Former foster youth in California are eligible for Medi-Cal until age 26 under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA). Marcy Valenzuela has been without health insurance for the last four years. By the time she was 18, she had lived in several foster placements, had become addicted to drugs and spent time in juvenile hall. The 25-year-old is getting her life back on track, starting with her health.
Many former foster kids are entitled to Medicaid coverage until they turn 26 but eligibility workers ? and they themselves
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