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Jurisdiction | California |
Headquarters | Sacramento, California |
Annual budget | US$ 100 billion (2021-22) |
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Parent agency | California Health and Human Services Agency |
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The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is a department within the California Health and Human Services Agency that finances and administers a number of individual health care service delivery programs, including Medi-Cal, which provides health care services to low-income people. It was formerly known as the California Department of Health Services, which was reorganized in 2007 into the DHCS and the California Department of Public Health. [1] On September 10, 2019, DHCS Director Jennifer Kent announced her resignation, effective September 30, 2019. [2] On September 25, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Richard Figueroa, Jr. as Acting Director. [3] Will Lightbourne was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom and began serving as Director on June 16, 2020. [4] Subsequently, Michelle Baass was appointed Director of DHCS by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 10, 2021, replacing the outgoing Will Lightbourne. [5]
A December 2014 audit of the DHCS's Medi-Cal dental care program (Denti-Cal) by the California State Auditor reported that:
DHCS had a budget of 144.8 Billion. Please correct this.
Uses complex sets of agreed procedures to conceal a burgeoning growth of administrative cost in the skilled nursing facility industry. Does not report expenditures composition to the public only total expenditures. Uses consultants and employees to lie that consolidated ownership in the skilled nursing facility cannot be proven.
11,000 patients died during COVID-19 in California skilled nursing facilities and they are not reported on a consolidated chain level.
Covers up any and all public data related to intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled by calling concealment procedures research.
Pre COVID-19 Re arranges peer grouping of nursing homes without posting to the public the probable effects in the long run utilizing a back room consultant.
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