Medi-Cal What it Means to You - San Francisco Public Schools

support order) which makes the other parent responsible forproviding health insurance.You must:• give your medical provider any information needed to bill your privatehealth insurance coverage,• send any payment you get directly from an insurance carrier forservices paid by MEDI-CAL to the DHCS. The address is:You must:Department of Health Care ServicesThird Party Liability and Recovery DivisionCost Avoidance SectionP.O. Box 997424, MS 4719Sacramento, CA 95899-7424• send any medical support payment you get from the absent parent toDHCS. The address is:Department of Health Care ServicesThird Party Liability and Recovery DivisionCost Avoidance SectionP.O. Box 997422, MS 4719Sacramento, CA 95899-7425• use your health maintenance organization (HMO), and/or prepaidhealth plan (PHP), such as Kaiser Health Plan, CHAMPUS, or militarycoverage, for regular medical care. Out of area services for emergencycare should also be billed to the HMO/PHP.• use your BIC only for MEDI-CAL covered services that your prepaid orhealth maintenance plan or military insurance does not cover.If you have other health insurance coverage, the computer system will be codedto show other health insurance.A provider (doctor or pharmacy) may not refuse to provide service or fill yourprescription solely because you have other health insurance coverage (inaddition to MEDI-CAL). If you do not have other health insurance coverageand the computer system is coded that you do, ask your county eligibilityworker to correct the coding on the computer system. If you have SSI/SSPand the computer system is incorrectly coded to show other health insurancecoverage, and you do not have it, please call the DHCS’ Cost AvoidanceSection at 1-800-952-5294 (toll-free) to correct the coding on the computersystem.- 12 -