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    The State of Emergency

    CHCF recently published the latest edition in its wide-ranging Almanac series, “California Emergency Departments: Use Grows as Coverage Expands.” Kristof Stremikis, director of CHCF’s Market Analysis and Insight team, talks about the important findings.

    •Expert Perspective
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    How An All-Payer Claims Database Can Improve Care in California

    Denise Love of the National Association of Health Data Organizations and Jo Porter of the University of New Hampshire’s Institute for Health Policy and Practice discuss the potential for an all-payer claims database in California.

    •Expert Perspective
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    What Matters Most to Californians

    A statewide poll reveals that Californians are deeply aware of the state’s lack of mental health providers — and they’re worried about how to pay for care.

    •Data Insight
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    Top Five Takeaways from CHCF’s 2024 California Health Policy Poll

    The annual statewide poll offers a comprehensive look at the health issues Californians are most worried about — and what they hope state policymakers will prioritize this year.

    •Report
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    Reforming Prior Authorization in California

    How automation and other solutions could reduce delays, improve patient outcomes, and make care more affordable.

    •Expert Perspective
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    Prime for Disruption

    Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. jolted Wall Street with a joint venture designed to reduce health care costs. Technology alone is not sufficient to solve the cost problem. Leaders also need to pull policy levers, fix payment systems,…

    •Expert Perspective
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    Have Out-of-Pocket Costs Peaked in California Workplace Health Plans?

    A new CHCF survey of participants in California’s employer-based insurance market shows that employers and workers may be reaching their limit on out-of-pocket spending.

    •Expert Perspective
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    Medi-Cal: A Program and a Population That Work

    While the federal government has opened the door for states to impose work requirements on people who use Medicaid, data show that a vast majority of nondisabled recipients are already in working families.

    •Report
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    Market Consolidation on Trial

    On the eve of a trial over alleged anticompetitive practices by a California health care system, a new CHCF study traces the correlation between health industry consolidation and prices paid by consumers.

    •Feature Story
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    How California Can Finally Close In on Meaningful Health Price Transparency

    For more than a decade, state and federal policymakers have argued for greater health care price transparency. Their efforts received a push in recent weeks.

    •Report
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    Health Industry Consolidation in California: What’s Left to Settle?

    When court proceedings in the Sutter Health antitrust case are finally over, the work of promoting competition in California’s health care marketplace won’t be finished.

    •Expert Perspective
  • ennifer Kent, Director of the California Department of Health Care Services, speaks at CHCF's Medi-Cal Explained briefing, February 25,2019.
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    Explaining Medi-Cal

    CHCF has launched Medi-Cal Explained, a project that will include papers and briefings describing how the nation’s largest Medicaid program organizes, finances, and provides care for Californians with low incomes.

    •Expert Perspective
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    Ever-Rising Health Costs Worsen California’s Coronavirus Threat

    As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, it is important to remember another significant threat to the health of our people — soaring health costs.

    •Data Insight
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    COVID-19 Tracking Poll: One-Third of California Primary Care Doctors Worry Their Practices Won’t Survive

    Many physicians say their practices furloughed or laid off staff or cut physician pay while increasing telehealth visits with patients.

    •Data Insight
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    COVID-19 Tracking Poll: One in Five Californians Knows Someone Who Died of COVID-19

    Black and Latinx Californians are more likely than white Californians to know someone who has died of the new coronavirus.

    •Data Insight