Measure Description
Medi-Cal is California’s public health insurance program under Medicaid. It provides free or low-cost health care coverage to low-income individuals. This measure represents the number of Medi-Cal cases that received coverage during each month.
- Calculation methodology: A count of the number of active Medi-Cal cases on a particular day within each month, usually around the 10th.
- Metric type: Citywide Indicator
- Department: Safety net service caseloads are Citywide indicators of need and utilization of services. These programs and caseload data are administered and tracked by San Francisco's Human Services Agency.
Medi-Cal Active Caseload
Why this Measure is Important
Medi-Cal is California’s public health insurance program under Medicaid. It provides free or low-cost health care coverage to low-income individuals including:
- families with children
- seniors
- persons with disabilities
- children in foster care
- pregnant women
- people with certain diseases such as tuberculosis, breast cancer or HIV/AIDS
Medi-Cal pays for medical visits, hospital care, prescription drugs, pregnancy-related treatment, dental and eye care, and other medical services.
Find out if you qualify for Medi-Cal and learn more about the program by visiting the San Francisco Human Services Agency website.
Data Notes and Sources
This measure represents the number of Medi-Cal cases that received coverage during each month. The data source is CalWIN, an administrative database used in 18 California counties. The monthly results represent point-in-time active caseload counts.
The number displayed on the scorecard page represents the average of monthly active Medi-Cal cases for each fiscal year.
Data lag time: One month
Visit DataSF to access the scorecard data.
Additional Information
- View more resources or enroll in a Medi-Cal healthcare plan by visiting the Human Services Agency website.
- Learn more about enrollment trends in the San Francisco Health Network.
City Performance Scorecards
This page is part of the City Performance Scorecards.