Our Story
We were established in 1994 by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and are an award winning, managed care health plan whose mission is to improve health outcomes of the diverse San Francisco communities through successful partnerships.
We were created by the City and County of San Francisco with one purpose: to provide high quality medical care to the largest number of low-income San Francisco residents possible, while supporting San Francisco’s public and community-minded doctors, clinics, and hospitals.
We have seen many positive changes over our 22-year history, from achieving universal coverage of children, offering access through the City’s award-winning Healthy San Francisco Program for all uninsured in the City, successfully implementing the Affordable Care Act Medi-Cal expansion to childless adults, tripling our Medi-Cal membership in less than 10 years, a quintupling of our revenues, and being the highest ranked public Medi-Cal plan as determined by the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) on quality measures for each of the last 10 years.