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DPH outlines $24M-a-year Whole Person Care Medi-Cal waiver program targeting high-use homeless patients
Summary
The Department of Public Health described San Francisco's Whole Person Care Medi-Cal waiver award (about $24 million annually, half matched by the city) that funds navigation centers, shared data tools and expanded respite/detox beds to coordinate care for roughly 10,000 people experiencing homelessness, with 13% identified as very high users driving most urgent-care costs.
San Francisco's Department of Public Health detailed a multi-agency effort to use Medi-Cal's Whole Person Care waiver to coordinate care for people experiencing homelessness and high health-system utilization.
Maria Martinez, who directs the city's Whole Person Care initiative, told the commission the Department of Health Care Services designed the five-year waiver (through 2020) to encourage counties to integrate health, social and justice systems around a small group of very high users. San Francisco's award started in January 2017. Martinez said the city was awarded almost $24 million per year, half of which is matched by the City and County of San Francisco.
Martinez said DPH's data (from the Coordinated…
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