Healthy Way LA

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Healthy Way LA (HWLA) was a free public health care program available to underinsured or uninsured, low-income residents of Los Angeles County from 2007 until 2014. The program, administered by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LADHS), was a Low Income Health Program (LIHP) approved under the Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver.[1] HWLA was succeeded by My Health LA, a no-cost health care program which ran from 2014 until 2024, when access to Medi-Cal was expanded.[2]

HWLA helped to narrow the large gap in access to health care among low-income populations by extending health care insurance to uninsured LA County residents living at 0 percent to 133 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).[3] Individuals eligible for HWLA were assigned to a medical home within the Department of Health Services or its partners, thus gaining access to continuous primary care, preventive and specialty services, mental health services, and other support systems.[4] HWLA was one of the few sources of coordinated health care for disadvantaged adults without dependents in LA County.

  1. ^ California department of health care services. (n.d.). Low Income Health Program. Retrieved from [1] Archived 2013-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Ridley-Thomas, Mark (11 August 2015). "Improving the My Health LA Program" (PDF). MOTION BY SUPERVISORS MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS AND HILDA SOLIS. Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
  3. ^ Healthy Way LA Los Angeles County. (2011). HWLA Matched Enrollment and Eligibility. Retrieved from [2] Archived 2012-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Los Angeles County Health Services. (n.d.). Healthy Way LA. Retrieved from [3][permanent dead link]