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  • Future of Medi-Cal Illustration of a lightbulb filled with colorful balls
    Expert Perspective

    The Future of Medi-Cal: Bold Ideas for the Next Decade

    CHCF announces six winning concepts selected to inform the Future of Medi-Cal Commission as it drafts a roadmap for California’s health system.

    •Medi-Cal
  • Lisette Carmona, LCSW, Social Work Manager, Clinical Instructor of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC alongside Raymond Gonzales, Case Worker at USC Street Medicine speak with patient receiving behavioral health care treatment.
    Report

    Street Medicine: A Critical Pathway for Behavioral Health in California

    The California Street Medicine Collaborative is the statewide voice for street medicine. It brings together more than 80 street-medicine programs, more than 1000 members, and more than 275 organizations to strengthen the field statewide. Hosted by USC Street Medicine, the…

    •Behavioral Health, Homelessness
  • Feature Story

    Rural Hospital System Cuts Readmissions, Changes Lives With Enhanced Care Management

    Going beyond clinic walls to coordinate care proves vital for Medi-Cal enrollees with complex care needs, including homelessness.

    •Medi-Cal
  • Man balancing ccales
    Report

    Beyond Realignment: Options for Modernizing California’s Behavioral Health System

    Read recommendations for improving California’s behavioral health system written by nationally recognized health policy leader Jacey Cooper.

    •Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal
  • Doctor and patient have a freindly conversation in a clinic.
    Feature Story

    Small Practices, Big Promise

    How independently owned primary care practices in LA County can help move California closer to equitable care.

    •Health Equity, Medi-Cal
  • House made of four brighly colored puzzle pieces next to a stethoscope
    Tool

    Housing-Related Community Supports Implementation Tools

    Housing-related Community Supports are Medi-Cal/CalAIM services that help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness access and maintain stable housing. Read about these CHCF-funded tools.

    •Homelessness, Medi-Cal
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    External Resource

    Measures That Matter

    Behavioral health systems often track what’s easy to measure, not what matters most to people with serious mental illness. Aligning metrics with real priorities has the power to transform care.

    •Behavioral Health
  • Piggy bank with stethoscope draped around it.
    Report

    National Health Spending Almanac — 2025 Edition

    National health care spending totaled $4.9 trillion in 2023. The Almanac report provides a detailed look at national health care spending.

    •Facts and Data
  • California Counties Map with Doctors and Patients
    Report

    The Crucial Role of Counties in the Health of Californians

    Learn about the role of California counties in administering health care, behavioral health, and public health services

    •Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal
  • Sandra R. Hernández President & Chief Executive Officer
    Expert Perspective

    ‘Back to the Future’: Defending Care in a New Era 

    CEO Sandra R. Hernández discusses how California can lean on past lessons and future innovation to survive a changing health care landscape.

    •Health Care Costs/Affordability, Health Equity, Health Insurance Coverage, Medi-Cal, Technology and Innovation
  • Report

    San Joaquin Valley — Regional Market Report 2025

    San Joaquin Valley is one of seven markets included in the 2025 Regional Market Report, which focuses on gaining key insights into the organization, financing, and delivery of care in communities across California and over time. 

    •Facts and Data, Health Insurance Coverage
  • Report

    California Health Insurers, Enrollment Almanac — 2025 Edition

    This California Health Care Almanac quick reference guide shows enrollment by regulator, market, and insurer. A companion data file contains California enrollment for 2012 to 2023.

    •Facts and Data
  • Illustration of a person pulling a string out of a tangled ball
    Expert Perspective

    Health Care Is Too Complicated. It Doesn’t Need to Be.

    For the sake of patients, providers, and the future of California, it’s time to simplify the health care system.

    •Health Care Costs/Affordability, Technology and Innovation
  • Inside CHCF

    Our Top 10 Reads of 2025

    CHCF’s most popular resources of 2025 reflected your need to understand unprecedented changes in the state health care system.

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    Tool

    Considerations for Medicare Billing in Federally Qualified Health Centers

    This guide supports FQHCs in navigating Medicare’s billing requirements and offers practical strategies for improving contracting, operations, and billing.

    •Medi-Cal, Older Adults