As a society, we often struggle with nuance around complex ideas that mean different things to different people, especially with subjects we don’t want to face. End-of-life care is one of them.

Health care providers cannot effectively coordinate a patient’s care without access to a shared set of accurate clinical information about that patient. That’s what Collective Medical aims to provide, and that’s why it has received the CHCF Health Innovation Fund’s latest program-related investment.

Policymakers and health care stakeholders are eager to see how Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar’s actions square with his ambitious rhetoric about using "value-based transformation" to reinvent the US health care system.

California can strengthen its use of payment as a tool to drive performance improvements and create greater value in the Medi-Cal program, and to enhance care for Medi-Cal's more than 13 million members.

Many of our health policy debates are consequences of an unaffordable health care system. It's important for California to join other states in addressing the problem of why health care costs so much.

Mental health disorders are among the most common chronic illnesses that people face, in the US and here in California, yet too many people miss out on treatment.

A growing number of medical visits in California are being conducted through telehealth or telemedicine technology, which enables providers to care for people who live far from medical specialists.

In California hospitals, the cost of uncompensated care continued to fall in 2016, but at a slower rate than the 51% decline between 2013 and 2015.

With the individual mandate penalty scheduled to be removed next year, a new Harvard study projects a significant impact on both California and the nation.

New evaluation shows that California's community paramedicine pilot projects have improved coordination between providers, reduced preventable treatment, and resulted in no adverse outcomes for patients.

The UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education has released a report detailing affordability concerns of Californians seeking individual market coverage. It also outlines five policy options that could move the state closer to universal coverage.

In California, the smaller community health centers that need the most support are the least likely to get it, and that poses a risk for the thousands of low-income Californians who rely on them. As California’s entire health care safety net moves forward, we can’t leave these smaller centers and their patients behind.

Palliative care supporters see this movement as the cure for what ails American medicine.

Dan Diamond planned to become a US diplomat, but instead he wound up as a journalist at CHCF's California Healthline. After moving to POLITICO, he unearthed the story that forced the resignation of the Trump Administration's top health official.

The California Health Care Foundation wants partners and other stakeholders to understand what our new strategic priorities mean in practice.