Is Your Medicaid Plan Right for You? Take the MPC Quiz!

1. Can you talk to a local doctor within 90 seconds on your phone or laptop from anywhere seven days a week?
2. Does your plan include dental care?*
3. Do you get free eye exams and new eyeglass lenses every year?
4. Is your Medicaid plan owned by an extensive network of local providers who live and work in Maryland?

If you answered “no” to any of these questions, you could be missing out on important benefits! You get all these benefits and FREE primary care, urgent care, and ER visits with MPC.

*Dental Care through the Maryland Healthy Smiles Dental Program

Medicaid/MCHP recipients in the HealthChoice program have three opportunities to switch MCOs:

1. Within the first 90 days of enrolling in Medicaid/MCHP
2. After being enrolled in your current MCO for at least 12 months
3. When there is an approved reason to change
   Approved Reasons to Change MCOs

   • If you move to another county where your current MCO does not offer care
   • If you become homeless and find that there is another MCO closer to where you live or have shelter, which would make getting to appointments easier
   • If you or any of your family has a doctor in a different MCO and the adult member wishes to keep all family members together in the same MCO. (This does not apply to newborns, newborns must remain in the MCO that the mother was in at the time of delivery for the first 90 days.)
   • If you have a foster child placed in your home and you or your family members receive care by a doctor in a different MCO than the foster child, the foster child being placed can switch to the foster family’s MCO.
   • If the MCO terminates your PCP contract for reasons other than listed below, then you will be notified by the state.
     • Your MCO has been purchased by another MCO;
     • The provider and the MCO cannot agree on a contract for certain financial reasons; or
     • Quality of care.

HealthChoice is a program of the Maryland Department of Health.