Listening to Californians with Low Incomes: Health Care Access, Experiences, and Concerns Since the COVID-19 Pandemic is a compilation of early findings from a statewide survey of the health care experiences of California’s residents. The survey included an oversampling of residents with low incomes.
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CHCF Blog

When Inequity Gets Measured, It Gets Managed

October 19, 2020
Xenia Shih Bion
Health Equity
Stories That Caught Our Attention: How California is trying to ensure that its 58 counties don't overlook the health of neighborhoods most deeply affected by COVID-19.
Publication

Getting to Care: A Look at Medi-Cal’s Transportation Benefit

October 2020
Athena Chapman, Elizabeth Evenson, Len Finocchio, Shawn Blosser
Medi-Cal
In 2016 California lawmakers expanded Medi-Cal coverage to provide more comprehensive coverage for the cost of transportation to medical services. This report provides an overview of the implementation and experiences of this expanded benefit.
CHCF Blog

How California Could Encourage Adoption of Alternative Payment Models

October 14, 2020
Justin Yoo
Payment & Financing, Health Care Costs, Medi-Cal
Research has shown that APMs can help reduce costs and improve quality.
Publication

Mergers and Acquisitions: A Practical Guide for Community Health Centers

October 2020
Greg Facktor & Associates, Regina Boyle, Curt Degenfelder
Many Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are exploring acquisitions and mergers as a means of ensuring sustainability, expanding services, and maintaining patient access to basic health care services in underserved areas. CHCF has created this manual to provide support and guidance for FQHCs contemplating a consolidation with another provider entity.
CHCF Blog

California’s Progress Toward Parity in Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services

October 6, 2020
JoAnn Volk
Behavioral Health
While California law has been strengthened to provide parity protections for all mental health and substance abuse disorders, big opportunities for improvement remain.
CHCF Blog

Improving the Health of Black Women in California

October 2, 2020
Claudia Boyd-Barrett
Behavioral Health, Health Equity, Maternal Health
An interview with Sonya Young Aadam, CEO of California Black Women's Health Project.
Publication

Hanging On to Coverage?

October 2020
Katherine Wilson, Laurel Lucia
Coverage Trends
Millions of Californians lost jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. But early information from California’s insurance regulators suggests that — at least through June — the number of Californians with job-based health insurance has not changed as dramatically as feared. This may help partially explain why the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, has not yet experienced a big surge in enrollment.
Publication

Working Californians Enrolled in Medi-Cal Share Their Stories

October 2020
NORC at the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley Labor Center
Medi-Cal
Medi-Cal covers close to three million working Californians. Many became eligible because the ACA expanded the program to more adults with low incomes. This report combines key findings from survey data with insights from in-depth interviews with enrollees to paint a picture of working Californians who rely on Medi-Cal, why they came to enroll in the program, and the role it plays in their lives.
Publication

Maternity Care and Paying for Maternity Services

September 2020
Melora Simon
Medi-Cal, Maternal Health
Learn about maternity coverage in Medi-Cal, including eligibility, covered services, and payment.
Collection

The Future of the Affordable Care Act

Expanding Health Coverage
This collection highlights key resources on the impact of the ACA in California and the potential consequences if the law is abolished. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes it even more difficult to predict the Supreme Court’s ruling in an upcoming federal lawsuit that seeks to invalidate the ACA. The ACA may also be shaped by actions of the president and Congress in the coming months and years.
Collection

COVID-19 Clearinghouse

This COVID-19 collection contains data, analysis, best practices, and news related to how the state's health care system can and is responding to this sweeping health emergency.
RFP

Request for Proposals — Almanac Report on Racial Health Disparities in California

Questions may be submitted by October 2. Letters of intent to apply must be submitted by October 14. Full proposals are due October 23.
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