Los Angeles Daily News, December 15, 2015: L.A. civil rights group alleges Medi-Cal unfair to low-income Latinos
“Low-income Latinos in the Southland and elsewhere are denied access to health care because the Medi-Cal program does not pay doctors enough to treat them, according to an administrative complaint filed by a civil rights group against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The complaint, lodged with the agency’s civil rights division late Monday, contends the state’s Medi-Cal reimbursements are so much lower than Medicare and private insurance rates that many providers routinely decline to treat Medi-Cal enrollees, two-thirds of whom are Latino.”