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How Legal Changes in Response to COVID-19 Can Improve Access to Community Behavioral Health

This report discusses the impact of temporary legal reforms on outpatient and residential behavioral health services in California and identifies the most promising candidates for long-term reform.

February 3, 2021

•Behavioral Health

Behind the Headlines

LA and the Pandemic: A Tale of Two Cities

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Overcrowded housing, large essential industries, and an ill-prepared health care system are blamed for the staggering COVID-19 surge in LA.

February 1, 2021

•Primary Care

Behind the Headlines

Californians Overwhelmingly Support Funding of Public Health Efforts to Defeat Pandemic

New CHCF survey finds that 9 in 10 Californians say taming the public health crisis is highly important.

January 29, 2021

•Facts and Data

Report

Reimbursing FQHCs for Telehealth Post-COVID-19 Pandemic: Medi-Cal’s Options

This paper examines the choices and considerations for California policymakers to extend Medi-Cal coverage and reimbursement for telehealth provided by Federally Qualified Health Centers — even after the COVID-19 pandemic.

January 28, 2021

•Medi-Cal

Report

Paying Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans for Value: Design Recommendations for a Quality Incentive Program

This report recommends a new way to pay Medi-Cal managed care plans (MCPs) designed to improve the quality of care for Medi-Cal enrollees. The Department of Health Care Services would withhold part of its capitation payments to MCPs, who could…

January 28, 2021

•Medi-Cal

Inside CHCF

Controlling Spread of COVID-19 Is Californians’ Top Policy Priority; 71% Say They Will Get the Vaccine

January 28, 2021

•Facts and Data

Data Insight

The 2021 CHCF California Health Policy Survey

COVID-19 and health care costs are key priorities that Californians want lawmakers to address, according to this statewide poll.

January 28, 2021

Behind the Headlines

Committed Champion for Health Equity Joins Biden White House

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith — clinician, researcher, and academic leader at Yale School of Medicine — will lead President Joe Biden’s White House COVID-19 equity task force.

January 25, 2021

•Health Equity

Report

Los Angeles: Vast and Varied Health Care Market Inches Toward Consolidation

The Los Angeles health care market juggles the needs of more than 10 million people. The vast county includes 88 cities, and the historically fragmented health care sector tends to serve distinct geographic areas where people live and work.

January 20, 2021

•Facts and Data

Expert Perspective

State Must Write New Medi-Cal Contracts to Advance Health Equity

An interview with Kiran Savage-Sangwan, executive director of the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network.

January 20, 2021

•Health Equity

Feature Story

How Docent Health Navigates Maternity Patients to Better Outcomes

Docent Health’s patient navigators help California clients access the health and social services they need.

January 19, 2021

•Medi-Cal

Tool

CIN Resource Page: Integrating Equity in Social Needs Efforts

This California Improvement Network resource page provides curated tools and strategies for centering equity in efforts to address social needs that impact health.

January 13, 2021

•Health Equity

Report

Medical Care at Home Comes of Age

This report aims to make it easier for policymakers, health plans, and health systems to understand the why, what, and how of home-based medical care models. It examines how this field has developed, details current home-based medical care models and…

January 13, 2021

•Older Adults

Report

Street Medicine Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Center for Health Care Strategies recently spoke with representatives from the Los Angeles Christian Health Centers and with a provider from the Street Team Outreach Medical Program at the Roots Community Health Center in Oakland to learn more about…

January 11, 2021

•Homelessness

Behind the Headlines

New Year Brings California No Pandemic Relief

Stories That Caught Our Attention: If the first week of 2021 is any indication, the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to batter California and the nation well into the new year.

January 11, 2021

•Primary Care

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How Legal Changes in Response to COVID-19 Can Improve Access to Community Behavioral Health

LA and the Pandemic: A Tale of Two Cities

Californians Overwhelmingly Support Funding of Public Health Efforts to Defeat Pandemic

Reimbursing FQHCs for Telehealth Post-COVID-19 Pandemic: Medi-Cal’s Options

Paying Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans for Value: Design Recommendations for a Quality Incentive Program

Controlling Spread of COVID-19 Is Californians’ Top Policy Priority; 71% Say They Will Get the Vaccine

The 2021 CHCF California Health Policy Survey

Committed Champion for Health Equity Joins Biden White House

Los Angeles: Vast and Varied Health Care Market Inches Toward Consolidation

State Must Write New Medi-Cal Contracts to Advance Health Equity

How Docent Health Navigates Maternity Patients to Better Outcomes

CIN Resource Page: Integrating Equity in Social Needs Efforts

Medical Care at Home Comes of Age

Street Medicine Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

New Year Brings California No Pandemic Relief

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