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To Unlock Better Health, California Doubles Down on Primary Care
California aims to grow primary care spending to 15% of total health spending. Learn how organizations are collaborating to reach that goal.
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The Future of Medi-Cal: Bold Ideas for the Next Decade
Kara Carter and Chris Perrone share six winning concepts selected by CHCF to inform the Future of Medi-Cal Commission, which is drafting a roadmap for California’s health system.
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Federal Funds Expand and Support California’s Health Workforce: An Explainer
In 2022, California received $2.1 billion in federal funds to strengthen its health workforce. This explainer outlines funding sources, program types, and supported professions across medicine, nursing, and behavioral health.
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Enhancing Financial Sustainability for Street Medicine: Examining Medi-Cal Managed Care Contracts with California Providers
This issue brief provides a snapshot of contracting efforts between a sample of Medi-Cal managed care plans and street medicine providers. It examines the impact that those contracts are having on street medicine providers’ financial sustainability.
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Controlling Health Care Costs
Health care is too expensive for many Californians. CHCF offers these resources that detail where health spending happens, why health care costs are increasing so rapidly, and what policymakers could consider to improve value in the system.
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Providers Want to Lower Families’ High Hopes for CARE Courts
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s big new experiment to push people with mental illness off the streets and into treatment starts this fall. Counties responsible for the rollout say it may end up being more modest than advertised.
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Heading for an Acute Crisis?
This Issue Brief updates prior estimates of utilization, costs, and revenue in California hospitals through the end of 2022.
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Investing in Primary Care: Why It Matters for Californians with Commercial Coverage
This study measures primary care spending, as a proportion of overall spending, among commercial health plans and provider organizations (POs) in California. Among POs, more investment in primary care was associated with better quality, fewer ED visits, and lower total…
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Primary Care Spending
More than one-third of US states have prioritized shifting more of the health care dollar to primary care. Here’s how they are doing it, and what California can learn.
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The Case for Investing in Primary Care in California
Investing in primary care is crucial to address physician shortages, unequal access to care, and improve health outcomes for all Californians.
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COVID-19 Highlighted the Poverty-Mental Health Link. Can California Experiments Break It?
Stories That Caught Our Attention: The mental health effects of economic instability can be countered by supportive economic policies, according to new research.
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Data Show 2019 California Health Insurance Enrollment Struck a Balance
Medi-Cal and individual market enrollment continued to decline but were offset by growth in employer-sponsored and Medicare plans.
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COVID-19 Tracking Poll: Many Say California Reopening Too Quickly, Worry Cases Will Increase
Forty-three percent of state residents think the rules are being relaxed too rapidly.
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Modernizing Payment to California’s Community Health Centers
Health centers are crucial to California’s response to COVID-19. But the care they provide is still dictated by old payment rules that severely hamper health centers’ ability to care for patients during COVID-19 and, in some cases, keep their doors…
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Time to Modernize Payment to Health Centers
This issue brief outlines why these old payment rules are hurting patients during the COVID-19 crisis, and how transitioning to a new way of paying for care, called patient-centered payment, will allow health centers to better serve patients going forward.
