JOSEPH PREZIOSO

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Advocate

Legal

There are 170,000 children in the State of California, who are enrolled in the State of California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) Children's Special Services (CSS) and Genetically Handicapped Persons Program (GHPP). Both programs were authorized by the State of California Hereditary Disorders Act. In 2005, via the State of California Section 1115 Waiver the State of California became the first and to date only state in the union to "federalize" it's State Health Plan for genetic disorders (new born screening) that every State in the union has an equivalent program. For almost ten years the State of California has reaped over $500 million dollars of funding for a program that...