Apparently this has happened to a lot of folks and is a problem. Here is an excerpt from a Sacramento newspaper about others it happened to:
"The interface between Medi-Cal and Covered California continues to be very problematic,” says Dede Kennedy-Simington, vice president of the insurance agency Genesis Financial in Southern California.
“They have to find a way to hand consumers back and forth,” she says. “It’s creating a lot of concern and anger and frustration.”
Michael Connelly, 62, of Granite Bay, near Sacramento, got caught in Medi-Cal when he tried to sign up for Covered California for the first time.
Connelly, who retired Oct. 1, mistakenly reported his income for the last three months of 2016 as zero when he applied for 2017 coverage, thinking it wasn’t pertinent to his application.
In doing so, he immediately got kicked into Medi-Cal, even though he really doesn’t qualify, and it took trips to county offices, an appeal with Covered California, endless hours on the phone and help from Knauss to fix the problem.
“After they have you, they won’t let you go,” Connelly says. “I’m telling them, ‘Do you want to see my bank account? I don’t need Medi-Cal.’ ”
Read more here:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/ask-emily/article129018879.html#storylink=cpy