COVID-19 Educate + Vaccinate Program

UPDATE: Please note that the deadline for submitting an interest form has passed.

L.A. Care Health Plan has launched a COVID-19 Educate + Vaccinate Program to help support our primary care providers (PCPs) and their efforts to educate and encourage their patients to get COVID-19 vaccinated. Providers and their staff are a trusted source of information about the COVID-19 vaccine for our members.

L.A. Care is offering eligible network PCPs an incentive of $10 per eligible assigned L.A. Care member who gets their first COVID-19 vaccine between February 14, 2022 through April 30, 2022.  We hope that this will off-set some of the outreach costs needed to better inform your unvaccinated L.A. Care patients about the importance of the vaccine.

Program Overview

  • L.A. Care will pay eligible network PCPs $10 for each L.A. Care Medi-Cal Direct or Cal MediConnect member five years and older who receives their first COVID-19 vaccine dose from February 14, 2022 through April 30, 2022.
  • Program participation is not automatic.  Start dates and payments are contingent on individual PCP enrollment into the program and the effective date of agreement.
  • Members must be identified in the California Immunization Registry (CAIR 2) as having received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine from February 14, 2022 through April 30, 2022.
  • Second, third doses and booster shots are not eligible for the incentive.
  • L.A. Care will provide participating PCPs with a list of their eligible assigned members who are unvaccinated.
  • To participate in this program, PCP offices will conduct outreach and education about the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine. PCP offices will help patients find a local pharmacy or vaccine location near them and help schedule an appointment, if needed.

Eligibility and Participation

  • This program is for individual PCPs in the L.A. Care network with an assigned panel of 500 or more L.A. Care members.
  • This program is also for all PCPs in the L.A. Care Direct Network.
  • PCPs working at Federally Qualified Health Centers are not currently eligible for this program.
  • Program participation is not automatic.  Start dates and payments are contingent on individual PCP enrollment into the program and the effective date of agreement.
  • Please complete the interest form by March 7, 2022, and an L.A. Care representative will contact you to answer any additional questions you may have and to provide instructions on how to access your list of unvaccinated L.A. Care patients.

Incentive Payments

Payment is based on number of eligible members vaccinated with their first COVID-19 vaccination on or after February 14, 2022 through April 30, 2022. L.A. Care will use its CAIR 2 data to ascertain incentive payments. CAIR 2 data may be staggered, and therefore final vaccination rates and incentives will be ascertained 45 calendar days after the end of the performance period of April 30, 2022 without further evaluation beyond this date.  Incentive payment checks will be issued to PCP after the 45-day ascertainment period.

Program Termination

The COVID-19 Educate + Vaccinate Program may be changed or terminated at any time by L.A. Care without prior notice.

Interest Form

The interest form process is now closed.