To learn what Medicaid innovation to expect over the next decade, Manatt Health surveyed and interviewed over 200 health care leaders across government, providers, plans, tech companies, community-based organizations, and investment firms. The paper explore the future for issues like telehealth, care coordination, social determinants of health, and behavioral health integration.
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Sacramento Area: Large Health Systems Grow in a Pricey and Tumultuous Market

February 2021
Len Finocchio, James Paci
The Sacramento area — a region spanning El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties — stands out among other inland California localities in boasting relatively high household incomes and a stable economy. Yet the region's hospital market continues to be dominated by four large health systems, a trend that likely contributes to the area’s high private health insurance premiums.
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San Diego: Competing, Collaborating, and Forging Ahead with Population Health

February 2021
Caroline Davis, Katrina Connolly
The San Diego health care market has long been dominated by four health systems: Kaiser Permanente, Sharp HealthCare, Scripps Health, and University of California San Diego Health. Despite significant gains in health coverage, access to care for people with lower incomes, especially for behavioral health services, remains a challenge.
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Advancing Data Exchange in California

Data Exchange
This series of reports sponsored by CHCF is aimed at helping inform California decisionmakers about statewide data exchange. These reports focus on how other states have approached statewide health information exchange; the existing electronic health record networks, regional health information organizations, and competing infrastructure that currently exist in California; and the challenges and policy options for the state going forward.
CHCF Blog

The Burdens Grow Heavier for COVID-19 Health Care Providers

February 22, 2021
Xenia Shih Bion
Workforce, Behavioral Health, Health Equity, Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
Stories That Caught Our Attention: Health care providers, working through unimaginable tragedies and unprecedented circumstances because of COVID-19, have little time to devote to their own mental health or well-being.
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COVID-19 Tracking Poll, February 2021: Views from California Health Care Providers on the Front Lines

February 2021
Goodwin Simon Strategic Research
Behavioral Health
This poll provides detailed insights on health care providers' views of a COVID-19 vaccine, including their rates of vaccination to date. Also included are providers' responses about mental health and morale, and the availability of personal protective equipment.
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Holding On: How California’s Health Centers Adapted Operations and Care for Patients During the Pandemic

February 2021
Capital Link, Aurrera Health Group
This paper identifies several key factors that enabled California’s health centers to manage the financial strain exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic while continuing to serve patients at a time when accessing health care involved new and unanticipated challenges.
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California Department of Public Health: COVID-19 Vaccination

Everyone in California will have an opportunity to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at no cost. But our vaccination supply is limited right now. So we’re starting with the groups who are at highest risk, like people with a high chance of exposure and people 65 and older. Find out if it’s your turn.
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The 2021 CHCF California Health Policy Survey

January 2021
Rebecca Catterson, MPH, Lucy Rabinowitz, MPH, Emily Alvarez, MA
COVID-19 and health care costs are key priorities that Californians want lawmakers to address, according to this statewide poll.
CHCF Blog

A Time to Be Hopeful Again

February 11, 2021
Sandra R. Hernández
Health Equity, Expanding Health Coverage
Recovering from a woeful period in our nation's history will take a long time, and we won’t get there without hope. From that perspective, we are off to a good start.
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Telehealth Use Among Safety-Net Organizations in California During the COVID-19 Pandemic

February 2021

This JAMA Research Letter finds that visits at FQHCs participating in CHCF’s Connected Care Accelerator declined only modestly for primary care and remained stable for behavioral health during the first six months of the pandemic, with telehealth (particularly by telephone) replacing in-person visits. The authors conclude that “eliminating coverage for telephone visits could disproportionately affect underserved populations and threaten the ability of FQHCs to meet patient needs.”
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How Legal Changes in Response to COVID-19 Can Improve Access to Community Behavioral Health

February 2021
Robert Belfort, Julian Polaris
Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal
This report discusses the impact of temporary legal reforms on outpatient and residential behavioral health services in California and identifies the most promising candidates for long-term reform.
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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.
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