San Francisco Health Plan

Specialties

San Francisco Health Plan is a licensed community health plan that provides affordable health care coverage to over 130,000 low and moderate-​income families. Members have access to a full spectrum of medical services including preventive care, specialty care, hospitalization, prescription drugs and family planning services. We were designed by and for the residents its serves and takes great pride in its ability to accommodate a diverse population that includes young adults, seniors and people with disabilities.

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 as possible, while supporting San Francisco’s public and community minded doctors, clinics and hospitals.

San Francisco is as unique as the people who live here. As the local health plan, we know the city; we know the people who live here; and we are tailored to respond to their needs. As a public agency, we have no shareholders. Our revenues remain in the community and any excess is used to enhance patient services, expand coverage and overall, improve the community’s health.

History

Established in 1994.

San Francisco Health Plan was created as one of California’s Local Health Plans — an initiative to provide affordable health coverage to low and moderate-​income families residing in San Francisco. We have since grown to deliver health insurance services to over 130,000 San Franciscans, An excellent choice of physicians, hospitals and clinics are all right here in SF, close to where our members live and work.

In January 2002, in addition to our Medi-​Cal and Healthy Workers programs, we launched Healthy Kids — a City and County funded program, which moved San Francisco one giant step closer to universal health care coverage for all uninsured

In July 2006, SFHP partnered with the SF Department of Public Health to develop and implement Healthy San Francisco and the City Option programs. Healthy San Francisco is not an insurance program, but provides participants with a primary care clinic — called a «medical home» — for preventive, specialty, urgent care, emergency care, and more.