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Medi-Cal’s Dental Care Gap: Getting a Tooth Pulled Is Easy — Much Harder To Get an Implant
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — When Bobby Moske went to a community clinic a few years ago with a toothache, he couldn’t find a dentist in Marin County willing to take Medicaid to do a root canal. Marin Community Clinics referred the 75-year-old to a dentist about 20 miles away in San Francisco, but his tooth
Medi-Cal’s Fragmented System Can Make Moving a Nightmare
When Lloyd Tennison moved from Walnut Creek, California, to Stockton last year, he hoped for a seamless transfer of his Medi-Cal coverage from the old county to the new one. What he got was red tape that disrupted his care and bills for nearly $1,700 that he should not have received. (Heidi de Marco/KFF Health