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SF Health Commission: department outlines ACA enrollment progress, outreach push and April 15 extension
Summary
San Francisco Department of Public Health reported city enrollment figures through February, estimated 43,000—5,200 residents could remain uninsured by year—nd, and described outreach including jail enrollment efforts and an April 15 extension for started Covered California applications.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health told the Health Commission that Covered California and Medi-Cal enrollment has outpaced early projections and described a concentrated outreach push to enroll remaining uninsured residents.
Colleen, a department presenter, said national exchanges have enrolled about 7.1 million people and California has reached roughly 1.2 million enrollees; local figures presented through February showed about 27,809 Covered California enrollments in the city and a little more than 33,000 San Franciscans enrolled in Medi-Cal, “mostly people who were eligible under the ACA expansion,” an enrollment analyst said.
The department estimated that the newly eligible Medi-Cal population in the city could be roughly 81,000 to 95,000 people and projected…
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