Health Insurance/Dental Coverage

The program provides health care coverage at a reduced rate for youth, birth to 18 years of age. Services include medical, inpatient and outpatient, mental health, and vision coverage. Family income must be 0 to 300% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, and not eligible under Medi-Cal, Healthy Families or California Children's Services (CCS).

Complete eligibility requirements are as follows:

Birth to 18 years of age

Live in a Kaiser service area, statewide

Uninsured at time of application

Family income does not exceed the eligible income guidelines

Child must not be eligible for coverage paid in part through an employer or eligible for coverage through public health care programs such as Medi-Cal, Healthy Families or California Children's Services (CCS).

Subscribers are required to recertify for eligibility after 24 months and to notify the plan of changes in the family's financial status, if the child becomes eligible for other health care coverage, or if the family moves from a Kaiser service area.

Benefits include office visits (includes regular checkups and hearing tests); well baby care (birth through 23 months); immunizations; prescriptions; routine eye exams; inpatient hospital care; lab tests and x-ray services; mental health services; urgent care; and emergency services.