About Health Care Consumer Protection

The Health Care Consumer Protection Unit is housed in the Division of Medical and Dental Affairs in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The Unit is currently focused on addressing financial harms from health care using a prevention, population-based approach informed and implemented through a wide coalition of community organizations, legal aid groups, health plans, hospitals, physicians, and others. To learn more, please visit Preventing Medical Debt web page. For resources for consumers, visit Medical Debt website.

To contact the Unit, please email hccp@ph.lacounty.gov.