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Healthy Start / Healthy Families |
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(Children's Health Insurance) |
- Healthy Start provides free health insurance for children of low and moderate-income working families.
- Eligibility is determined by number of persons in the household and total household income. Children in eligible working families living in Cuyahoga County qualify until they reach their 19th birthday.
- Children enrolled in Healthy Start receive care through an Managed Care Plan (MCP). The MCP provides a number of health care services, including: hospital or acute illness care, well-child checkups, dental care, eyeglasses, prescribed medicine, immunizations. At present, there are two Managed Care Plans in the program; families may choose their MCP based on their own priorities for convenient location, hospitals, selection of doctors, etc.
- Apply by mail; no office visit is necessary.
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