The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is now law and counties are beginning to understand its implementation. This course provides a balanced, fact-based discussion of how federal health care reform is being implemented in California and its effect on county health, mental health and social services.

Four key areas focus the course: 1) case studies of the implementation and effects on county services and funding; 2) who is left uninsured and how to manage those populations; 3) jail medical, behavioral health and other linkages; 3) effect on realignment and other funds; and 4) observations on where we are headed on health care and counties as medical providers.  Discussion addresses specific county programs and funding and how those are changing as the law is implemented. Other issues examined include trends in how people are using their new insurance to seek health care, county responsibilities for the uninsured, potential impacts on future realignment funding.

Instructors:  Expert faculty on the Affordable Care Act and its specific application to California counties, including Judith Reigel, Executive Director, County Health Executives Association of California.

In San Diego