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The California Health Care Foundation is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need.
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Hundreds of providers, administrators, government officials, consumers, and advocates learned how Medicaid programs can integrate behavioral health services and physical health care.
At Mercy Medical Center, the nation’s only hospital-based Hmong shaman certification program bridges Eastern and Western medicine to meet immigrants’ health needs.
State Medicaid programs are actively pursuing models of behavioral health value-based purchasing. This paper reviews well-publicized initiatives in three state Medicaid programs that have adopted different types of behavioral health value-based purchasing models.
The survey offers detailed insight into Californians’ views on a range of critical health issues, including health care affordability and access, perceptions on homelessness, the health care workforce, Medi-Cal, and the experiences of the uninsured.
This paper synthesizes insights from organizational leaders representing Medicaid-based partnerships in four states: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, and Oregon.
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.
Stories That Caught Our Attention: The former health plan CEO comes to Sacramento with deep experience in transforming large health care organizations.
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.
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.