Behavioral health is a fully covered Medi-Cal benefit, including outpatient mental health, substance use disorder treatment, crisis services, and medication-assisted treatment. Members do not need to choose between paying rent and getting care.
What members often need is help navigating those benefits — knowing what is covered, finding a provider who speaks their language, scheduling an appointment that does not require taking a full day off work.
That is the work our care managers and behavioral health staff do every day, in coordination with the member's primary care and Medi-Cal managed care plan.