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Designing a Statewide Health Data Network: What California Can Learn from Other States

This report explores how four states have successfully deployed statewide health data networks, also known as health information exchanges. The framework for success that Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, and New York have forged offers lessons for California in how to develop…

February 12, 2021

•Facts and Data

Feature Story

A Time to Be Hopeful Again

Recovering from a woeful period in our nation’s history will take a long time, and we won’t get there without hope. From that perspective, we are off to a good start.

February 11, 2021

•Health Insurance Coverage

External Resource

Telehealth Use Among Safety-Net Organizations in California During the COVID-19 Pandemic

February 8, 2021

Behind the Headlines

California Attempts to Accelerate Vaccination Campaign

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The state’s plans to vaccinate every Californian over age 16 has been buffeted by complex problems.

February 8, 2021

•Primary Care

Expert Perspective

Use ‘Carrots and Sticks’ to Spur Better Quality, Equity From Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans

California has a rare opportunity to institute long-overdue financial incentives tied to health plan performance.

February 4, 2021

•Medi-Cal

Report

Pandemic Highlights Vulnerability of California’s Latinx Community

While the pandemic has upended the lives, finances, and health of millions of Californians from all backgrounds, it has hit Latinx people the hardest.

February 3, 2021

•Health Equity

Inside CHCF

CHCF Commends First Step to Roll Back Public Charge Wealth Test, Urges Further Action

Yesterday President Joe Biden directed federal agencies to begin a review of the public charge wealth test for immigrants implemented under the Trump administration. In response, Sandra R. Hernández, MD, president and CEO of the California Health Care Foundation issued…

February 3, 2021

Report

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

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Designing a Statewide Health Data Network: What California Can Learn from Other States

A Time to Be Hopeful Again

Telehealth Use Among Safety-Net Organizations in California During the COVID-19 Pandemic

California Attempts to Accelerate Vaccination Campaign

Use ‘Carrots and Sticks’ to Spur Better Quality, Equity From Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans

Pandemic Highlights Vulnerability of California’s Latinx Community

CHCF Commends First Step to Roll Back Public Charge Wealth Test, Urges Further Action

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

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