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How to Pay for It

April 4, 2025

•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.

March 7, 2025

•Homelessness

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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.

March 7, 2025

•Medi-Cal

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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.

January 1, 2025

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Data Insight

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.

September 13, 2023

•Primary Care

Quick Read

Heading for an Acute Crisis?

This Issue Brief updates prior estimates of utilization, costs, and revenue in California hospitals through the end of 2022.

May 25, 2023

•Facts and Data

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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…

April 19, 2022

•Primary Care

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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.

April 18, 2022

•Primary Care

Quick Read

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.

April 1, 2022

•Primary Care

Behind the Headline

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.

March 29, 2021

•Behavioral Health

Data Insight

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.

July 31, 2020

•Facts and Data

Data Insight

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.

June 19, 2020

•Facts and Data

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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…

May 28, 2020

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Expert Perspective

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.

May 27, 2020

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Report

Shared Savings: Financial Incentives to Spur Better Care for Medi-Cal Patients

The Department of Health Care Services’s CalAIM process would change the way it pays Medi-Cal managed care plans to incentivize long-term improvements in quality of care and health outcomes for patients. It specifically calls out the need and potential benefit…

January 28, 2020

•Medi-Cal

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How to Pay for It

Enhancing Financial Sustainability for Street Medicine: Examining Medi-Cal Managed Care Contracts with California Providers

Enhancing Financial Sustainability for Street Medicine: Examining Medi-Cal Managed Care Contracts with California Providers

Controlling Health Care Costs

Providers Want to Lower Families’ High Hopes for CARE Courts

Heading for an Acute Crisis?

Investing in Primary Care: Why It Matters for Californians with Commercial Coverage

Primary Care Spending

The Case for Investing in Primary Care in California

COVID-19 Highlighted the Poverty-Mental Health Link. Can California Experiments Break It?

Data Show 2019 California Health Insurance Enrollment Struck a Balance

COVID-19 Tracking Poll: Many Say California Reopening Too Quickly, Worry Cases Will Increase

Modernizing Payment to California’s Community Health Centers

Time to Modernize Payment to Health Centers

Shared Savings: Financial Incentives to Spur Better Care for Medi-Cal Patients

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