When a prospective family first contacts M.R.S. we provide a brief free assessment to determine whether our services are needed.

Once it is determined that MRS’ services are appropriate we schedule an hour long $95 consultation. Our consultations are conducted over the phone which enables all family members to participate and ask questions directly to M.R.S. and provides the convenience of not having to travel to meet with us.

For only $95 our Consultants will evaluate your potential for Medi-Cal benefits and will answer all of the questions that cause apprehension and un-needed stress like; “Will I lose my home?” “Do I have too much money?” “Will the state try to recover from my Estate?” etc.

After completing our consultation, you will have an invaluable knowledge of your own specific situation. With that knowledge you will be able to enter the application process with the control and confidence that people often lack when proceeding blindly into the often-overwhelming application process for Medi-Cal eligibility.

You will know exactly where you stand and how to represent your family through the Medi-Cal Application Process. You will be empowered and not be in the dark when going through the Medi-Cal application process, so that you will not be easily intimidated by ticking clocks and over worked Eligibility Workers at the Department of Health Services.

You will also have the option of having M.R.S. act as your Authorized Representative through the application process. At the conclusion of the consultation, after seeing the specifics of your families’ case we will offer you a quote for M.R.S.’s retainer agreement to act on your families’ behalf.

It seems that our most valuable commodity these days is time, so it is important to have an avenue to find information that can help to efficiently accomplish the tasks that we face. While Google is an amazing technological achievement, I have compassion for anyone whose only option is to search the web for information about “Medi-Cal” and then attempts to navigate these bureaucracies without expert assistance.

The myriad of misinformation available for these inherently complicated programs is staggering, and the attitude and fees of many of the attorneys and advocates are shameful.

For only $95 our Consultants will evaluate your potential for Medi-Cal benefits and will answer all of the questions that cause apprehension and un-needed stress like; “Will I lose my home?” “Do I have too much money?” “Will the state try to recover from my Estate?” etc.

After completing our consultation, you will have an invaluable knowledge of your own specific situation. With that knowledge you will be confident to proceed with the application process on your own. You can trust that the information we provided to you and your family is accurate which empowers a family with the confidence that is often lacking when proceeding blindly into the daunting application process for Medi-Cal eligibility.

Ultimately, after the Consultation you will know exactly where you stand and how to represent your family through the Medi-Cal Application Process. You will be empowered and not be in the dark when going through the application process, so that you will not be easily intimidated by ticking clocks and constant demands of an often over worked and utterly stressed out Eligibility Workers at the Department of Health Services.

After the consultation, a family will also have the option of retaining M.R.S. to act on their families’ behalf, acting as their Authorized Representative throughout the application process. At the conclusion of the consultation, after seeing the specifics of your families’ case, we will offer a quote for M.R.S.’s retainer agreement to act on the families’ behalf.

M.R.S. clients are then provided with a summary of the consultation, a request list for the needed documentary paper trail needed for the application, we complete all of the formal application forms, our clients never have to go to Medi-Cal, and will never have to speak with Medi-Cal. In fact, our clients are able to simply refer a Medi-Cal Eligibility Worker who calls to M.R.S.’s toll free number.

At the conclusion of M.R.S.’s consultation ($95 fee), a family is given the option of retaining M.R.S. to act on their families’ behalf, as their Authorized Representative throughout the application process.

After evaluating the specifics of your families’ case during the consultation, our Consultant will provide the family a retainer quote to hire M.R.S. to act on the families’ behalf.

You may ask yourself how it is that a person seeking Medi-Cal can afford to pay for M.R.S.’s services?

If the family’s case is uncomplicated, the family will certainly be empowered and capable after the consultation to complete the application on their own behalf should they so desire.

When the family’s case is more complex and advocacy is either required, or just desired, the total price of the M.R.S.’s advocacy is a fraction of the charges for one month’s stay at a convalescent facility.

Many people privately pay for the first month in Long Term Care because they are overwhelmed with the task of supporting the ill spouse’s acclimation into the new LTC Community.

Our job is to secure a successful result from Medi-Cal for that first month’s costs in the facility and thus, by retaining M.R.S., the family avoids paying out of their savings for Care Costs which ends up being a net gain for the family.

A fair hearing is the process of going before an Administrative Law Judge with what is called a 3100 Petion request to retain additional income for the At Home well Spouse.

If already on Medi-Cal and you are visiting this website, then you probably feel that your monthly share of cost needs to be re-evaluated, or you are concerned about a possible inheritance, etc., and you are now worried you are going to lose your eligibility for Medi-Cal benefits.

If you have been denied coverage in the past and you feel the denial to be unjustly rendered, then give us a call. MRS has been responsible for the reopening of numerous cases where we find error in a negative determination.

DHS Medi-Cal Eligibility Workers are over-worked and overwhelmed by the large number of caseloads that they are responsible for and thus make errors in the determination for benefits. These mistakes in return can cause inappropriate denials. It is under these circumstances that MRS would have the case reopened, and the client would be appropriately reimbursed.

Sometimes the entire county in which the client is seeking eligibility may be misinterpreting regulations. This was the case in a particular County where thousands of clients were denied erroneously for being over property (Medi-Cal no longer counts Asset amounts) because of their IRAs. So, Kathryn submitted an application for her client which was wrongfully denied due to Medi-Cal inappropriately counting the value of the clients’ IRA. The value in the IRA put Kathryn’s client over the allowed countable asset property limit.

The problem with DHS County interpretation here is that an IRA that is set up to take proper distributions, is an “Exempt Asset.” The County was out of compliance, not the client.

Kathryn then proceeded to call that Counties’ DHS Supervisor and informed them that regulations were being misinterpreted by their eligibility workers. Kathryn was told by the Supervisor that she was wrong in her interpretation of the regulation.

…and while DHS no longer has Asset level thresholds to meet, this is a general scenario of the types of issues we face when acting as the representative for the families we serve. We know the system and we get your family results.