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The Health Consumer Alliance (HCA) Data on Children Access to Oral Health in 13 California Counties “Securing Health Rights for Those in Need”
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The Health Consumer Alliance (HCA)
Data on Children Access to Oral Healthin 13 California Counties
“Securing Health Rights for Those in Need”
HCA, An Innovative Partnership
• The HCA mission is to help low-income Californians obtain essential health care.
• Nine community-based health consumer centers, the National Health Law Program and Western Center on Law and Poverty.
• HCA provides service in thirteen California counties Fresno, Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, and Yolo, San Diego, San Francisco and Alameda, and San Mateo.
HCA Quantifies Consumer Problems
HCA assists 3/5 of all low-income Californians and provides quantified information on the barriers they face obtaining health care.
Health Law Database
• HCA gathers and stores information about all the clients it helps and the problems they face.
• The data is compiled on a statewide basis and analyzed.
• The analysis of this data is utilized in advocacy, policy reports, media stories, with the potential of helping solve not only one client's problem, but systemic issues.
In addition to demographics, health program coverage, and other relevant information, we collect information on the type of problems consumers report and the health service they need. We divide problems into:
• ELIGIBILITY PROBLEMS: problems a health consumer has getting health coverage
• SERVICE PROBLEMS: problems a health consumer has getting health services
HCA Data Collection: Eligibility, Service Problems, and Service Needed
Service Problems and Services Needed by Consumers , Captured by HCA
SERVICE PROBLEMS INCLUDE:•Billing/charges to or payments from consumer• Care unaffordable• Care unavailable/inaccessible• Delayed –Services/referral/appt• Denied –Services/referral/appt
SERVICES NEEDED:• Ambulance• Dental/orthodontic• Emergency care • Hospital care • Laboratory• Preventive visit
Top five programs under which consumers with the service needed "Dental/orthodontic“ were covered
Consumers aged 0 to 21 in cases closed between 1/1/2006 and 12/31/2007
Top five health programs under whichthe service needed was "Dental/orthodontic"
Consumers aged 0 to 21 in cases closed between 1/1/2006 and 12/31/2007
Top five service problemswith the service needed "Dental/orthodontic"
Consumers aged 0 to 21 in cases closed between 1/1/2006 and 12/31/2007
Top five entries for who caused the problemfor service needed "Dental/orthodontic"
Consumers aged 0 to 21 in cases closed between 1/1/2006 and 12/31/2007
Top five service problems within the top five programswhere the service needed was "Dental/orthodontic"
Consumers aged 0 to 21 in cases closed between 1/1/2006 and 12/31/2007
HCA, An Innovative Partnership
Kim LewisWestern Center on Law and Poverty
213.235.2628
