Engaging with CalAIM: Quick Links for Community-Based Organizations: This one-page flyer highlights the role of new providers, available implementation funds, and opportunities to get involved and obtain sustainable Medi-Cal funding through CalAIM. While geared to CBOs, it applies to any provider who is new to Medi-Cal managed care. (ITUP)

Medi-Cal Community Supports Explainer (PDF)
Community Supports are services not traditionally covered through Medi-Cal and are meant to address the health-related social needs of eligible members. (Aurrera Health Group)

Enhanced Care Management (ECM) Provider Toolkit (PDF)
Enhanced Care Management (ECM) addresses clinical and nonclinical needs through coordination of services and comprehensive case management for Medi-Cal members. This toolkit provides information about what ECM is, who it serves, and what is expected of those who provide ECM. (Aurrera Health Group)

PATH Fact Sheet (PDF)
Providing Access and Transforming Health (PATH) is a CalAIM initiative focused on capacity building and infrastructure, for community providers to better serve Medi-Cal members statewide. Visit the DHCS PATH web page to learn more. (DHCS)

CalAIM: Community-Based Organizations Poised to Partner with Medi-Cal
This blog post overview provides examples of how integral CBOs are to the vision and potential of CalAIM implementation. (CHCF)

The Role of CBO Networks in CalAIM: Seven Key Considerations
This brief explains the roles, opportunities, and challenges that CBO networks present in CalAIM. (CHCF)

Assessing Feasibility and Readiness

These tools are available in different formats that require different levels of engagement.

Nonprofit Readiness for Health Partnership
This readiness tool supports providers in assessing key capacities so they can be well positioned to partner with health care organizations. It includes 32 questions across six areas — organizational fit with partnership, financial capabilities, service delivery, measuring performance, people, and partnerships and networks. This tool is available as a downloadable Excel file. (Nonprofit Finance Fund)

Partnership Readiness Assessment
This more extensive tool supports providers in gauging their readiness for health care partnership and provides guidance on successfully preparing, securing, and maintaining contracts. This assessment is completed in a web browser. While the tool is free to use, an account is required to access it. (Aging and Disability Business Institute)

Financial Planning

Health Care and Community-Based Organization Partnership: What Does It Cost? (Excel)
This tool provides a simplified framework to help CBOs and other organizations assess their total estimated cost of partnering with health care organizations. (Nonprofit Finance Fund)

Budget and Financial Planning Tool
This tool helps CBOs and other organizations to develop project-specific budgets and to plan for project-related financial sustainability over a five-year time frame. (Scan Foundation)

Medi-Cal Explained: 2024 Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans by County
In 2024, many California counties will experience major changes around which Medi-Cal managed care plans operate there. This short resource offers county-by-county breakdowns of where managed care plans will operate next year — along with noteworthy changes, such as when an existing plan is exiting a region and when a new plan is taking on responsibility for enrollees in the area. (CHCF) 

Get Ready: A Contracting Best Practices Guide for Becoming a Medicaid Community Supports Provider (PDF) This resource provides step-by-step guidance on thinking through the contracting process to become a Community Supports provider in CalAIM. (HealthBegins)

Video: Contracting with Managed Care Plans (CalAIM Links2022 Statewide Session No. 2)
Learn about contracting with managed care plans in this video starting at 37:00 and running through 52:30. (HealthBegins)

Medi-Cal Academy for Homeless Service Providers
This training series is designed for housing and homeless service agencies interested in contracting with managed care plans to provide housing-related Community Supports. (Corporation for Supportive Housing)

Model Contracts for Community-Based Integrated Care Networks

This resource has three model contracts that provide examples of ways networks can frame their contractual relationships. While these sample contracts are not CalAIM specific, they can inform contracting with a managed care plan. (Aging and Disability Business Institute)

Collaborative Planning and Implementation
Stakeholders in regional collaborative planning groups are working together to identify how PATH and other CalAIM funding initiatives can address ECM and Community Supports program implementation gaps and improve outcomes. CBOs and other county-based providers are strongly encouraged to participate and can register here. (DHCS)

TA Marketplace
The CalAIM PATH Technical Assistance (TA) Marketplace launched in January 2023 to provide no-cost support for organizations working to implement CalAIM’s Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports. TA offerings include off-the-shelf project resources and connections for hands-on TA. A managed care contract is not required to participate in the marketplace. (DHCS)

Billing Better in CalAIM
This issue brief outlines key challenges with each step of the billing process and provides recommendations for addressing them. (CHCF)

Housing-Related Community Supports
Housing and homeless service providers may want to share this helpful guide with their managed care plan partners. The handbook is intended for leaders in health care plans. (CHCF)

Food as Medicine Collaborative Technical Assistance Resources
The Food as Medicine Collaborative website features TA resources and tools (such as a readiness assessment survey) for health entities interested in providing medically supportive food and nutrition services through CalAIM. (Food as Medicine Collaborative)