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Healthy Way LA (HWLA) was a free public health care program available to underinsured or uninsured, low-income residents of Los Angeles County. The program, administered by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, was a Low Income Health Program (LIHP) approved under the 1115 Waiver.[1] HWLA helped to narrow the large gap in access to health care among low-income populations by extending health care insurance to uninsured LA County residents living at 0 percent to 133 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).[2] Individuals eligible for HWLA were assigned to a medical home within the LA County Department of Health Services (LADHS) or its partners, thus gaining access to continuous primary care, preventive and specialty services, mental health services, and other support systems.[3] HWLA was one of the few sources of coordinated health care for disadvantaged adults without dependents in LA County. HWLA was succeeded by My Health LA, a no-cost health care program for low-income Los Angeles County residents launched on October 1, 2014.[4]
- ^ California department of health care services. (n.d.). Low Income Health Program. Retrieved from [1] Archived 2013-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Healthy Way LA Los Angeles County. (2011). HWLA Matched Enrollment and Eligibility. Retrieved from [2] Archived 2012-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Los Angeles County Health Services. (n.d.). Healthy Way LA. Retrieved from [3]
- ^ Ridley-Thomas, Mark (11 August 2015). "Improving the My Health LA Program" (PDF). MOTION BY SUPERVISORS MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS AND HILDA SOLIS. Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
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