The County Medical Services Program (CMSP) was established by the California Legislature effective January 1, 1983, under AB 799. Many rural counties in California are subscribers to this program. The purpose of this program is to provide essential health care services to persons who are not eligible for Medi-Cal benefits (due to age, disability or lack of children in the home), and whose income and assets are insufficient to pay their medical bills and meet their basic monthly needs.
CMSP eligibility criteria are similar to the Medi-Cal program, but some benefits of the Medi-Cal programs are not available to CMSP recipients.
Covered benefits include:
- Acute inpatient hospital care
- Laboratory and radiology services
- Home health agency services
- Outpatient heroin detox services
- Pharmaceutical services and medical supplies
(dispensed by licensed pharmacies)- Physicians services
- Blood and blood derivatives
- Chronic hemodialysis
- Emergency ambulance services
- Hospital outpatient and outpatient clinic services
- Dental
- Optometrical