Sacramento County Projects 73,000 Residents to Lose Medi-Cal Coverage in Next Fiscal Year
Per The Center Square's April 15 reporting on a Sacramento County lawmakers' meeting about projected federal cuts, state finance projections cited in the article show 73,000 Sacramento County residents expected to fall off Medi-Cal in the coming year — scale-consistent with UC Berkeley Labor Center's county-level modeling (2.98M fewer statewide by 2028).
CA total impact: $32.3B/year ($30B Medi-Cal + $2.3B CalFresh) from H.R. 1. Concrete county-level patient volume number — Sacramento FQHCs (WellSpace Health, Elica, Sacramento Native American HC, One Community Health, HALO, Sacramento Community Clinic) operationally need to plan for ~73K newly uninsured patients.
Coupled with Sacramento County's $26M HHS cuts already announced.
Part of
- Medicaid financing and eligibility operations
Coverage-loss estimates
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FQHC Talent. (2026, April 15). Sacramento County Projects 73,000 Residents to Lose Medi-Cal Coverage in Next Fiscal Year. Source: The Center Square. Retrieved September 28, 2026, from https://www.fqhctalent.com/intel/sacramento-county-73k-medi-cal-loss-april-2026
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