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California Health Care Almanac

Objective information on health care costs, coverage, quality, and delivery supports effective decisionmaking. The Almanac provides data and analysis on California's health care system.

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California Health Insurers, Enrollment Almanac — 2025 Edition

Katherine Wilson

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.

California Health Insurers Almanac — 2024 Edition

Katherine Wilson

This Almanac provides a snapshot of the insurance market in California at the end of 2022. Data from the state’s two insurance regulators — the California Department of Managed Health Care and the California Department of Insurance — and other sources were used to examine market share, enrollment, financial performance, and consumer satisfaction.

California’s Health Care Safety Net Almanac — 2024 Edition

Blue Sky Consulting Group, James Paci, Matthew Newman

This Almanac report presents data on the providers and programs that compose California’s system for providing health care to people with low incomes.

Californians with Low Incomes Almanac — 2024 Edition

Blue Sky Consulting Group, James Paci, Matthew Newman

All Californians should have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Californians with low incomes often face greater barriers to care than those with higher incomes. This Almanac quick reference guide provides a look at the data provided by the 2022 California Health Interview Survey.

California’s County-Based Health Plans Almanac — 2024 Edition

Katherine Wilson

Coverage Trends

The state's county-based health plans are public entities organized through one or more counties to ensure that Medi-Cal enrollees, and in some cases county employees and Covered California enrollees, receive comprehensive care. Where are these plans and who do they cover?

California’s Health Care Workforce Almanac — 2024 Edition

Healthforce Center at UCSF

California’s health care industry employed more than 1.8 million people in 2022. Seven Almanac quick reference guides provide data on wages, education, and workplaces for selected health professions.

California’s Nurses Almanac — 2024 Edition

Healthforce Center at UCSF

Nursing is the single largest health profession in California. These quick reference guides use the most recent data available to look at nursing supply, demographics, education, and distribution, as well as pay for registered nurses (RNs) and licensed vocational nurses (LVNs).

California’s Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities Almanac — 2024 Edition

This quick reference guide examines available data on older Californians and those with disabilities.

Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity in California Almanac — 2024 Edition

Aurrera Health Group

Disparities among historically marginalized groups in California occur across many demographic categories. This Almanac provides data that show how people of color face barriers in accessing health care, often receive suboptimal treatment, and are most likely to experience poor outcomes in the health care system.

Medi-Cal Facts and Figures Almanac — 2024 Edition

James Paci, Matthew Newman, Blue Sky Consulting Group, Athena Chapman, Chapman Consulting

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is the state’s health insurance program for Californians with low incomes, including children, people with disabilities, and seniors. Get the latest data on this program, which covers one in three Californians.

National Health Spending Almanac — 2025 Edition

Katherine Wilson

Health Care Costs

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

People Experiencing Homelessness in California Almanac — 2024 Edition

The number of people experiencing homelessness that accessed California's homelessness response system, Continuums of Care, increased 87% from 182,680 in 2017 to 337,734 in 2023. This quick reference guide looks at available data on people experiencing homelessness in California and at their hospital and emergency department use.

Quality of Care: Behavioral Health Almanac — 2024 Edition

This set of quality measures focuses on behavioral health, including mental health and substance use.

Quality of Care: Children’s Health Almanac — 2024 Edition

This set of quality measures focuses on children’s health and reports the most recently available data.

Quality of Care: Chronic Conditions Almanac — 2024 Edition

This set of quality measures highlights California’s performance across a range of chronic conditions, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease, and includes data by race/ethnicity, payer, and county.

Quality of Care: Providers Almanac — 2024 Edition

This set of quality measures focuses on providers, including ambulatory surgery centers, emergency departments, inpatient hospitals, nursing homes, and home health care.

Long-Term Care in California — 2024 Edition

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

This Almanac describes the state’s supply, use, and quality of long-term care, including Medi-Cal’s long-term services and supports, nursing facilities, assisted living, and home health care.

US Health Care Spending: Who Pays? — 2024 Edition

Over the past 60 years, the way health care is financed has changed, with public insurance paying for more care. This graphic shows who paid for health care and how much it cost.

Robbin Gaines

Senior Program Officer, Market Analysis and Insight

Sally Mudd

Director of Engagement

Kristof Stremikis

Director, Market Analysis and Insight