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    Data Insight

    State Releases Data on California 2017 Health Insurance Enrollment

    California health insurance enrollment grew modestly in most categories in 2017, according to new data from state insurance regulators.


  • Two labrador retrievers, one yellow and one black, running together on a beach with a single stick in their mouths.
    Report

    Ensuring Health Plan Mergers Benefit the Community

    This report offers a detailed look at the results and future of infrastructure investment programs created as part of three for-profit health plan mergers in California.


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    Report

    Here’s What the House Passed to Tackle the Opioid Crisis

    The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a package of bills addressing the opioid epidemic. Two DC health policy experts explain the highlights.


  • Judge holding a gavel in court room.
    Behind the Headlines

    Politics Aside, Patients with Preexisting Conditions Need Protection

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Americans across party lines agree on one important thing — people who have preexisting conditions should continue to be protected by federal health law.


  • Mother and son at Texas immigrant detention center.
    Behind the Headlines

    Standing Up Together to Do What’s Right

    In response to recent changes in border policy, CHCF will be making up to $1 million in emergency grants to groups that support separated children and detained families.


  • Man from rural area waits at remote area clinic for care.
    Behind the Headlines

    No Shortage of Patients — Only Providers

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: California has no shortage of patients. Unfortunately, the state doesn’t have enough health care professionals to care for them all — a shortage that experts predict will only worsen with time.


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    Tool

    Overcoming Data-Sharing Challenges in the Opioid Epidemic

    Federal confidentiality rules, such as the “Part 2” rules, can be a stumbling block for primary care practices seeking to integrate substance use disorder treatment. This paper summarizes the rules and outlines steps that practices can take to coordinate care…


  • Cooks making bread at DV8, a restaurant that hires only people recovering from substance use disorders.
    Behind the Headlines

    Today’s Special: The Healing Power of Food

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: The healing power of food is making its way from grandma’s kitchen into America’s restaurants and a health plan near you. Plus, the Supreme Court nomination.


  • Group of medical personnel viewing information together on a laptop computer.
    Project

    Smart Care California

    This public-private partnership is working to promote safe and affordable health care in California.


  • Reprepresentative Henry Waxman served as the U.S. Representative for California's 33rd congressional district from 1975 until 2015.
    Expert Perspective

    Forty Years of Winning Friends and Influencing People

    Of more than 12,000 Americans who have served in Congress, few have had careers as productive as Henry Waxman’s. CHCF talked to the former Los Angeles-area congressman about US health policy.


  • Behind the Headlines

    Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System

    In Medi-Cal, treatment for patients with substance use disorder has long been run out of a separate program. Now California is implementing a broad move to modernize this system of care.


  • Comparison of community based palliative care sufficiency in California counties, 2014 vs. 2017
    Expert Perspective

    Palliative Care: The Road More Traveled

    The availability of palliative care has grown substantially in California over the past four years, thanks in part to SB 1004, which helped stimulate the development of specialty palliative care services in places that used to have none.


  • Chapa de client, Melissa, with her father.
    Feature Story

    Melissa’s Story: Telehealth Is Knowing That Care Is Just a Call Away

    Melissa Phelps needed to see a specialist about her worsening rheumatoid arthritis. The specialist she needed was far away, but telehealth consultations closed that gap.


  • Patient Zig Fayant talks with Senior Physician Rita Ogbo during a consultation at the Herbert Humph. (Photo by Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
    Behind the Headlines

    Health Care Journalists and Facts

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Health care policy continues to fuel political controversy, and journalists are playing an important role in providing data and evidence to counteract misinformation.


  • Dr. Parag Agnihotri with patient is Richard Maringer at Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group in San Diego.
    Feature Story

    Doctors Are Changing San Diego’s Opioid Prescribing Practices

    A large group of San Diego physicians is making progress against the opioid epidemic by educating prescribers and patients about ways to change longstanding practices.