Private Health Insurance May Be Available Through Your Employer - Continued through Adulthood

Check with your employer for a Disabled Dependent Waiver. Not all employers provide this but many do for both health and dental coverage.

 

This IDD Toolkit is a website devoted to information for the primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The online toolkit offers health care providers best-practice tools and a wealth of information regarding specific medical and behavioral concerns of adults with IDD, including resources for patients and families. 

 

Mental Health Services for Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Call 1-800-704-0900

Visit: http://www.hopeservices.org/our-services/counseling/

Make sure you have your son/daughter's Social Security Number and Date of Birth. They will verify the Medi-Cal status.

• If you have private insurance, you must first receive a denial of services from them.

 

Medi-Cal and the Estate Recovery Program

The recovery program is for when the individual has his or her own money, for example, a lawsuit settled where they receive funds, grandma dies and leaves money to the individual.  Those funds may be put into a FIRST PARTY trust by the court. This is also monitored by the court.  This link takes you to a nice and clear video about how to protect third party assets. 

 

Have a Health Insurance Problem?  

Call: California Department of Insurance Protecting California's Consumers

 

Great listing of forms and charts:

http://odpc.ucsf.edu/clinical/clinical-chart-forms

 

Know a Doctor, Dentist, Therapist or are you looking for someone? 

Find health care, psychiatric, counseling, and other services provider that other families have shared via our online survey.  If you haven't yet shared a provider that you feel works well with adults with developmental disabilities, Please Share Now. 

To access the list, use the password; pacdd 

Once in, click Browse Responses in the upper right hand corner to see the
submissions for each response. Otherwise, you see only a summary of all the responses.