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Publications

We publish reports, issue briefs, data snapshots, infographics, fact sheets, and other publications to help make meaningful change possible in California’s health care system. Our publications cover a range of topics from behavioral health to workforce. Read our latest work.

Equitable Co-design in Health Care: How to Incorporate Community Voices to Impact Systems

Advancing Equity in Medi-Cal’s Home and Community-Based Services

Older Adults with Complex Needs

With support from CHCF, Justice in Aging is producing a series of issue briefs focused on helping state agencies, policymakers, and other stakeholders in efforts to support equitable HCBS rather than institutional care where possible and desirable.

Perspectives from the Field: Developing the Enhanced Care Management Workforce

Camden Coalition

This short paper condenses interviews with numerous frontline workers and managers at organizations participating in Enhanced Care Management. Learn about the challenges they face in recruiting and retention, and the types of training effective for new staff.

Implementation Guide for the California Federally Qualified Health Center Alternative Payment Model

Center for Health Care Strategies

Payment & Financing

This guide is for leaders and staff in FQHCs that are considering or have committed to participating in the California Federally Qualified Health Center Alternative Payment Model.

A Partnership of Equals: Early Lessons from Mergers of Similarly Sized and Positioned Health Centers

El Cambio Consulting

This issue brief explores two mergers of similarly sized FQHCs in California in the last two years.

Medi-Cal Managed Care and Long-Term Services and Supports

Chapman Consulting

This report explores some design options for implementing Medi-Cal Managed Care and Long-Term Services and Supports that policymakers, agency leaders, advocates, and other stakeholders can consider as this work unfolds.

2023 Edition — California Health Care Spending

Katherine Wilson

Health Care Costs, Payment & Financing

Between 2010 and 2020, health care spending in California grew faster on an annual average basis than health spending in the US and the economic growth in the state. This Almanac quick reference guide provides an overview of spending in California.

Primary Care’s Essential Role in Advancing Health Equity for California

This report surveys the research linking primary care to improved health equity. It includes 14 example recommendations to strengthen primary care and to advance equity in California across five key areas.

New Analysis Sums Up How to Measure Health Equity

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Health Equity, Medi-Cal

This policy brief is part of the National Committee for Quality Assurance's larger work examining quality measurement for Medicaid programs.

Evaluating Fiscal Outcomes for Inpatient Palliative Care

J. Brian Cassel, Kathleen Kerr

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

The materials provided here describe how inpatient palliative care services impacts hospital costs and offer guidance on how to conduct analyses that quantify economic outcomes. The audiences for these materials are palliative care program leaders and the health system analysts who will be conducting analyses.

Evaluating Fiscal Outcomes for Outpatient Palliative Care

J. Brian Cassel, Kathleen Kerr

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

The materials provided here offer guidance on how to conduct analyses that quantify economic outcomes for established outpatient palliative care clinics and how to estimate the impact of proposed clinics. The audiences for these materials are palliative care program leaders and the health system analysts who will be conducting analyses.

Understanding California’s Community Health Worker/Promotor Workforce: CHW/P Health Care Employers

Healthforce Center at UCSF

This report describes current hospital and community health center practices related to the employment of CHW/Ps in their organizations.

2023 Edition — Health Care Costs 101

Katherine Wilson

Health Care Costs

The Almanac quick reference guide provides a detailed look at national health care spending in 2021.

Perspective: Racism in Academic Medicine Is Hindering Progress Toward Health Equity

Health Equity, Workforce

We cannot achieve health equity for Black patients without expanding the Black physician workforce, and the nation’s medical institutions are not achieving that goal.

The 2023 CHCF California Health Policy Survey

Lucy Rabinowitz Bailey, Rebecca Catterson, Emily Alvarez, Sangeetha Noble

More than one in three Californians report having medical debt, and of those, one in five (19%) report owing $5,000 or more.