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Californians Want Action on Health Care Costs and Access to Mental Health Treatment

A new CHCF poll shows how Californians are experiencing the health care system and what they want policymakers to prioritize when fixing it.

February 13, 2020

•Primary Care

Making Behavioral Health Integration Work

This paper synthesizes insights from organizational leaders representing Medicaid-based partnerships in four states: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, and Oregon.

February 13, 2020

•Behavioral Health

Report

CalAIM Behavioral Health Proposals

CalAIM: California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal is a multiyear initiative proposing broad delivery system, program, and payment reform across the Medi-Cal program. Read a summary of the proposals pertaining to behavioral health care.

February 13, 2020

•Behavioral Health

Expert Perspective

Help Prevent the Public Charge Rule’s Chilling Effect

Here are tools to help California immigrant families cope with the new public charge rule.

February 12, 2020

•Health Insurance Coverage

Behind the Headline

Governor Newsom Appoints Bradley Gilbert to Lead Medi-Cal

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The former health plan CEO comes to Sacramento with deep experience in transforming large health care organizations.

February 10, 2020

•Medi-Cal

Report

How Independent Assessment of Drug Value Can Help States

A growing number of payers are using drug value reports as a guide to fair pricing and accessibility.

February 4, 2020

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Behind the Headline

Public Charge Rule Could Erode Enrollment in Insurance Coverage

Stories That Caught Our Attention: A Supreme Court ruling sets the stage for implementation of the public charge rule in California and across the nation.

February 3, 2020

•Health Insurance Coverage

Feature Story

Concert Health Aims to Scale Collaborative Mental Health Care

Patients served by small and rural primary care physicians may benefit from a remote version of this increasingly popular model for providing mental health care.

January 30, 2020

•Behavioral Health

Inside CHCF

New University of California Program Will Double Pipeline of Specialized Mental Health Providers in Response to Growing Crisis

With California facing an urgent and growing shortage of mental health professionals, three schools of nursing within the University of California system (UCSF, UC Davis, and UCLA) are announcing the launch today of a new online certificate program that will…

January 29, 2020

Expert Perspective

Why a Shared Savings Program Is Critical to CalAIM

Chris Perrone, CHCF’s director of Improving Access, explores California’s rare opportunity to chart a new course for Medi-Cal for years to come.

January 28, 2020

•Medi-Cal

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

Behind the Headline

Covered California Enrollment Deadline Looms

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The deadline to enroll in a health insurance plan through Covered California is drawing near, but consumers this week can sign up and avoid the new state penalty.

January 27, 2020

•Health Insurance Coverage

Report

How to Fulfill the Promise of Medi-Cal

One of the most important steps California can take to live up to its social and economic potential is to improve the effectiveness of the enormously important Medi-Cal program.

January 22, 2020

•Medi-Cal

Report

Getting to Affordability: Spending Trends and Waste in California’s Health Care System

Health care is still far too expensive for many Californians. Crucial to any cost containment effort is a detailed understanding of what costs are being reduced, where they are coming from, and who has the potential to capture the savings.…

January 22, 2020

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Inside CHCF

California Improvement Network Announces New Partner Organizations

Twenty health care organizations have been selected as partners for the California Improvement Network (CIN) in 2020-2021. Collectively, these organizations serve or support more than 25 million patients across the state — more than half the population of California.

January 17, 2020

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Californians Want Action on Health Care Costs and Access to Mental Health Treatment

Making Behavioral Health Integration Work

CalAIM Behavioral Health Proposals

Help Prevent the Public Charge Rule’s Chilling Effect

Governor Newsom Appoints Bradley Gilbert to Lead Medi-Cal

How Independent Assessment of Drug Value Can Help States

Public Charge Rule Could Erode Enrollment in Insurance Coverage

Concert Health Aims to Scale Collaborative Mental Health Care

New University of California Program Will Double Pipeline of Specialized Mental Health Providers in Response to Growing Crisis

Why a Shared Savings Program Is Critical to CalAIM

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

Covered California Enrollment Deadline Looms

How to Fulfill the Promise of Medi-Cal

Getting to Affordability: Spending Trends and Waste in California’s Health Care System

California Improvement Network Announces New Partner Organizations

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