Issue - Any -L.A. Care Clinical Connections - November 2024March and April 2025November and December 2024September and October 2024L.A. Care Clinical Connections - September 2024July and August 2024April 2024March 2024March-April 2023May-June 2024January-February 2023November-December 2022September-October 2022July-August 2022May-June 2022March-April 2022January-February 2022Special EditionNovember-December 2021September-October 2021July-August 2021May-June 2021Spring 2021Winter 2020Fall 2020July 2020 Special EditionMay 2020November-December 2019September-October 2019July-August 2019May-June 2019April 2019March 2019February 2019January 2019December 2018July 2018February 2018January 2018August 2018April 2018November 2018October 2018September 2018June 2018March 2018May 2018December 2017October 2017September 2017August 2017July 2017June 2017November 2017July 2014June 2014October 2014May 2014December 2013October 2013April 2013January 2013September 2012July 2012February 2012 Apply Need Help with Eligibility and Claims for New L.A. Care Members? The new enrollments for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are in full swing. L.A. Care has gained 9.5% of eligible L.A. County enrollment of Covered California members under L.A. Care Covered™ and… May 2014 ICD-10 Compliance Date Extended to 2015 The Senate voted 64-35 in favor of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, which the House approved on March 27th, 2014. As a result, it prevents steep cuts to Medicare physician payments from… May 2014 Get Rewarded for High Quality Care with L.A. Care’s Physician P4P Program The 2014 Physician Pay-for-Performance (P4P) Program provides financial rewards for practices that provide high quality care for L.A. Care Medi-Cal and L.A. Care Covered™ members, and represents an… May 2014 L.A. Care Successfully Completes Cal MediConnect Readiness Review L.A. Care is pleased to announce that it has received readiness review approval from NORC, the organization contracted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to conduct the Cal… Request an Interpreter for Your L.A. Care Patient L.A. Care is here to help you deliver the best care to your patients. Network providers can request a no-cost in-person interpreter, including American Sign Language, for medical visits by calling 1-… Three Practices Receive NCQA Recognition The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has recognized Herald Christian Health Center, a recently designated federally qualified health center (FQHC) in San Gabriel, The Children’s Clinic… Coming Soon - HealthyCity.org! Effective April 1, 2014, L.A. Care will replace its current on-line Community Resources Directory with a link to HealthyCity.org. HealthyCity.org allows you to search a wide range of resources and… October 2014 Implement the NEW Staying Healthy Assessment (SHA) by April 1, 2014 DHCS has announced that the new Staying Healthy Assessment (SHA) forms must be implemented by health plans and providers by April 1, 2014. You can download and print the forms from the DHCS website… Help Your Patients by Early Intervention with the SBIRT Approach L.A. Care primary care physicians are now required to screen their patients for alcohol misuse under the expanded Medi-Cal behavioral health benefit. A highly effective method is the SBIRT approach.… L.A. Care CEO Howard Kahn Announces Departure Howard A. Kahn, the chief executive officer of L.A. Care Health Plan, has announced to the L.A. Care Board of Governors that he intends to step down at the end of the year after 13 years at the helm… Load More