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California Health Care Almanac

Cost & Quality

The US has the most expensive health care in the world. Yet disappointing gaps can occur between the quality of care that has been advanced by modern medicine and the quality that patients receive. CHCF's California Health Care Almanac focuses on market dynamics around cost and quality.
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Publication

2022 Edition — Health Care Costs 101

February 2022
Katherine Wilson
Health Care Costs
This quick reference guide provides a look at national health care spending in 2020. The full report will be released later this year.
Publication

2021 Edition — Quality of Care: Maternal Health and Childbirth

July 2021
Jen Joynt
While California continues to make progress on the quality of care provided to women during their pregnancies and deliveries, there is room for improvement.
Publication

2021 Edition — Quality of Care: Children’s Health

July 2021
Jen Joynt
This set of quality measures focuses on children's health.
Publication

2021 Edition — Quality of Care: Chronic Conditions

July 2021
Jen Joynt
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.
Publication

2021 Edition — Quality of Care: Behavioral Health

May 2021
Jen Joynt
This set of quality measures focuses on behavioral health, including mental health and substance use.
Publication

2021 Edition — Quality of Care: Providers

April 2021
Jen Joynt
This set of quality measures focuses on providers, including ambulatory surgery centers, emergency departments, inpatient hospitals, nursing homes, home health care, and hospice.
Publication

Infographic — US Health Care Spending: Who Pays?

June 2021
Health Care Costs, Payment & Financing
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.
Publication

2019 Edition — Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity

October 2019
Robbin Gaines
Health Equity
California is the most racially diverse state in the country, and addressing health disparities experienced by people of color is critically important. This Almanac report shows that people of color face barriers to accessing health care, often receive suboptimal treatment, and are most likely to experience poor outcomes in the health care system.
Publication

California Health Care Spending

September 2017
Katherine Wilson
Health Care Costs, Payment & Financing
Health spending in California totaled $292 billion in 2014, which is 12.6% of the state's economy. See California's health care spending numbers for private health insurance, Medi-Cal, and Medicare.
Publication

Health Spending Projections: 2015–2025

November 2016
Robbin Gaines
Payment & Financing, Health Care Costs
National health spending will reach $5.6 trillion by 2025. Get the data on payers, per enrollee costs, payment sources, and spending on types of services.
Collection

Quality of Care — Almanac Collection

Behavioral Health, Maternal Health
The Almanac reports in this collection examine the quality of health care in California. Topics include maternity care, behavioral health, chronic conditions, and providers.
Collection

Health Care Costs and Spending — Almanac Collection

Health Care Costs
This series of reports details how much is spent on health care in the US and California, which services are purchased, and who pays. This collection includes current and past editions of Health Care Costs 101 and Health Care Spending Almanac materials.
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