Registering Your Baby in Healthy Families

Note: Infants are automatically enrolled in the Healthy Families Program unless they are enrolled in employer-sponsored insurance or no-cost full scope Medi-Cal.

Approximately 30 days before your expected date of delivery, you will receive in the mail a Healthy Families Handbook and an Infant Registration Form requesting the following information about your baby:

1. First, middle and last name of your baby.
2. Date of birth.
3. Gender (sex).
4. Weight at birth.
5. Primary care provider (the doctor you want for the baby) optional.
6. Dental and Vision plan selection. (The Healthy Families Handbook and web site tell you which plans are available in your county ) optional.
7. Information on whether or not your infant is enrolled in employer-sponsored insurance.

You must submit this information to Healthy Families after your baby is born. If you do not receive the Infant Registration Form, call 1-800-433-2611. The Infant Registration Form is also available here.

If you register your baby with Healthy Families, your baby's coverage will begin as of the day of birth. He/She will be enrolled in the same plan in Healthy Families that you have through AIM. The baby will remain enrolled in the same plan you had in AIM, unless you have other children already enrolled in Healthy Families. If you have other children enrolled in Healthy Families, the baby will be transferred to the other children's plans on the third month after birth. Please call Healthy Families if your baby has special health care needs and you do not want the baby transferred to another plan.

Your baby will stay enrolled in Healthy Families if at the first Annual Eligibility Review you meet AIM

Program's guidelines. To stay enrolled in Healthy Families, on the baby's second Annual Eligibility Review your family income must be within Healthy Families Program's guidelines which are lower than the AIM Program.

Your baby's coverage will not begin until the Healthy Families Program receives the required Infant Registration Form. If you receive bills for services the baby received prior to registration, contact the AIM health plan.