Autism, Dental, Mental Health Focus of Transition Concerns

California Healthline

Daniel Harris, age 4, is just one of 600,000. But he's an important one, and not only to his mom. Daniel is one of the first kids in California to have lost insurance coverage for certain health care services as a result of the state's transition from Healthy Families to Medi-Cal managed care. Daniel has autism, for which he had been getting treatment through the Healthy Families program. His mom, Rachel Harris, said he was showing marked improvement in the applied behavioral analysis program.

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