Medicaid (Medi-Cal) card. ….

Medicaid (Medi-Cal) card.

• You may even get a phone call or information from your current Medicare Insurance company reaching out to help you re-qualify for your Medicaid.

• If you or someone you know is denied renewal of your Medicaid (Medi-Cal), call a specialist or me at 657-204-4224 to discuss options.

Other Medicare changes include:

• You may need to pay for those at-home COVID test kits now. Some COVID tests ordered in a doctor’s office will be covered.

• COVID treatments like Paxlovid will still be covered for beneficiaries through their prescription drug plans. However, there may be a co-pay for the prescription.

• Free telehealth video chats with doctors or healthcare providers will still be in place until the end of 2024. Before the pandemic, telehealth usually came with a cost.

• A Medicare provision that allows hospitals to treat patients in their homes instead of on-site is extended until the end of 2024. This effort began in November 2020 to free up hospital beds.

• Beginning 2024, Medicare will expand the types of behavioral and mental health providers it covers: added to the list are intensive outpatient mental health services.