California's Independent Medical Review provides consumers a way to appeal health coverage denials. What lessons have been learned, and is change needed?

State health officials and foundations came together to help shape California's Medicaid waiver request. How effective was the process and what were the lessons learned?

Despite some enrollment losses, most California health plans still turned a profit in 2010. This annual CHCF Almanac report looks at market share, financial performance, and consumer satisfaction.

California's dual health insurance regulatory structure contributes to consumer confusion, and government and insurance carrier administrative burdens. The major changes required by the federal ACA provide an opportunity to reexamine the regulatory system.

California has two agencies that regulate health insurance. In advance of major changes ahead under health reform, a report considers whether this dual structure is the most efficient approach.

As health reform presses ahead, California's individual and small group health insurance markets will gain new importance. See profiles of the segments and a new look at small group market share.

This interactive graphic looks at enrollment rates in health plans and public programs, provides an illuminating history of the many plan mergers in the state since 1985, and offers a timeline of major milestones in California insurance history since the 1920s.

A side-by-side comparison of California’s legislation to establish and define the state’s health benefit exchange (AB 1602/SB 900) with the corresponding provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act.

Health policy experts in Sacramento hash over details and discuss trade-offs in designing and implementing the state's health insurance exchange in the context of health reform.

The sharing of lab results with providers and patients is subject to an array of federal and state laws. This paper provides information to help policymakers understand the issues.

This issue brief analyzes the health privacy legal landscape in California before 2009 and discusses changes made by the enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

This report reviews state and federal requirements for employer-sponsored health insurance plans, or "cafeteria" plans. It describes the standards governing certain classes of employees, as well as responsibilities under COBRA, HIPAA, and ERISA.

This publication summarizes a report reviewing the health-related measures that have come before California voters in the past decade at both the state and county levels.