County Medical Services Program

Description

The County Medical Services Program (CMSP) was established in January 1983, when California law transferred responsibility for providing health care services to uninsured indigent adults from the State of California to California counties. This law recognized that many smaller, rural counties were not in the position to assume this new responsibility. As a result, the law also provided counties with a population of 300,000 or fewer with the option of contracting back with the California Department of Health Services (DHS) to provide health care services to indigent adults.

The CMSP Local Health Connections Pilot Project was developed to test the effectiveness of providing local-level services and support to designated CMSP enrollees and likely CMSP enrollees with complex medical and/or social conditions. The goal of the pilot project was to promote the timely delivery of necessary medical and suport services to the target population, improve health outcomes for the target population, link the target population to other resources and support, and improve the overall cost-effectiveness of expenditures made on behalf of the target population.

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