Calhoun Health Plan
The Calhoun Health Plan serves as a resource for the uninsured and underinsured residents of Calhoun County.
Description:
Plan A – The Calhoun Health Plan manages the State’s Medicaid Adult Benefit Waiver program, which provides basic care for individuals with little or no income (less than $4,000 per year in income). We find medical homes, assign medical cards, offer referral & advocacy, and help connect Plan A members with needed primary care services.
Plan B – the community-based access plan provides basic care for the working poor (those at or below 150% of the Federal Poverty Level or $15,600 per year for a single individual). This program pays for doctor's office visits, specialist evaluations, labwork, X-rays, and generic medications.
PDAP - The Prescription Drug Access Program helps people access no cost medications through the major pharmaceutical companies' charity care programs.
Rx Outreach – This program provides low-cost medications to individuals who are just above the income levels that would qualify them for free medications.
Referral & Advocacy Services - Under this program, we provide a variety of healthcare support services, from helping people understand Explanations of Benefits, to locating physicians and dentists who will provide donated care, to writing letters of application for charity care programs. We also work with over 40 local non-profits to refer our clients to existing resources within the county.
Health Assistance Fund - Through the Health Assistance Fund, we work to connect people with needed healthcare resources that are not available through any other source. The Health Assistance Fund is the fund of last resort - utilized only after all other community options have been exhausted. This helps to ensure proper utilization of existing community resources, as well as non-duplication of resources. We help with a variety of needs, including medical transportation, dental, vision, therapeutic, primary, and specialist care.
Community Dental Access Initiative (The Dentists' Partnership) - The Dentists' Partnership is an organized group of general and specialty dentists that have joined together to ensure that low-income individuals have access to critical dental services. Through the volunteer time of community dentists, as well as the support of local funders, we are able to serve the very poor.
History:
Formed with the sole purpose of providing a basic health coverage plan (Plan B) to the uninsured, the Calhoun Health Plan has experienced explosive growth and transformation over the last two years. We’ve expanded our focus from “Access to Basic Health Services” to include access to prescription medications, access to referral and advocacy services, and access to urgent dental care.
Two years ago, the Calhoun Health Plan could cover 600 people in the Plan B program, providing for doctor’s office visits, outpatient lab work and X-rays, and generic medications. Today, the Calhoun Health Plan does much more, including Plan B basic coverage for 875 people, enrollment in the State programs MIChild, Healthy Kids, and MOMS, community service referral, patient advocacy, BCHS Emergency Department referral for health resources, the Health Assistance Fund, the Dentists’ Partnership, the Prescription Drug Access Program, and the coordination of patient community volunteer service.
Contact person: Vicki Easterwood, Secretary, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (269) 969-6867
Address:
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190 East Michigan Avenue, Suite 385Battle Creek, MI 49014(See a map) |
Web Site: http://www.helpfortheuninsured.net
Directions:
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The Calhoun Health Plan is located in the George W. Toeller Building, across Michigan Avenue from the Justice Center and just down the street from City Hall. |
| Last updated on April 27, 2009 |
