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  • Illustration of white medical cross turning into money and blowing away against red background
    Behind the Headline

    The Price Isn’t Right

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Health policymakers in Sacramento and Washington, DC, are taking renewed interest in restraining one of the most stubborn challenges facing the nation — surging consumer health costs.

    •Health Care Costs/Affordability
  • Digital blueprint of building.
    Report

    Behavioral Health Integration in Medi-Cal: A Blueprint for California

    People in Medi-Cal with complex behavioral and physical health needs face a fragmented system that is challenging to navigate. This paper offers recommendations to build an integrated system of care in Medi-Cal, bringing together physical health, mental health, and substance…

    •Behavioral Health
  • ennifer Kent, Director of the California Department of Health Care Services, speaks at CHCF's Medi-Cal Explained briefing, February 25,2019.
    Expert Perspective

    Explaining Medi-Cal

    CHCF has launched Medi-Cal Explained, a project that will include papers and briefings describing how the nation’s largest Medicaid program organizes, finances, and provides care for Californians with low incomes.

    •Medi-Cal
  • Data Insight

    Plan Choice for Covered California Consumers, 2017–2019

    In 2019 plan choice on Covered California remained stable. Similar to 2018, 4% of enrollees in 2019 had only one health plan (meaning only one insurer) to choose from. Ninety six percent had at least two, and 81% had at…

    •Health Insurance Coverage
  • A stethoscope lays on a printed page containing a chart and a map of the United States
    Report

    Making Quality Matter in Medi-Cal Managed Care

    This report describes approaches many states are taking to use financial incentives with Medicaid managed care plans to accelerate quality improvements. There is an opportunity to build on current quality improvement efforts in Medi-Cal managed care, led by the California Department…

    •Medi-Cal
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    Report

    Accelerating Change: Community-Based Palliative Care in Public Hospitals

    This paper describes CHCF’s efforts to implement and expand community-based palliative care in one of the places where it’s needed most: California’s public hospitals.

    •Older Adults
  • Quick Read

    Medi-Cal and Behavioral Health Services

    This fact sheet provides a high-level overview of how mental and behavioral health issues are managed in the Medi-Cal program.

    •Medi-Cal
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    Quick Read

    Medi-Cal Payment to Managed Care Plans: Current Process and Challenges

    This fact sheet provides an overview of Medi-Cal managed care plans and how they are structured.

    •Medi-Cal
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    Quick Read

    The Medi-Cal Program: An Overview

    This publication offers an overview of the Medi-Cal program, which provides health coverage in California for children and their parents with low incomes, pregnant women, seniors, and nonelderly adults, including people with disabilities.

    •Medi-Cal
  • Quick Read

    Medi-Cal Eligibility and Enrollment: Current Status and Challenges

    This fact sheet provides an overview of the eligibility determination and enrollment process for the Medi-Cal program.

    •Medi-Cal
  • Quick Read

    The Medi-Cal Budget

    This fact sheet describes the organization, funding sources, and process for developing the Medi-Cal program budget.

    •Medi-Cal
  • Tents pitched under freeway in Oakland, CA
    Feature Story

    There’s No Health Without Home

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: The state with the nation’s mightiest economy is in the grip of a homelessness crisis that has so far outstripped the ability of state and local governments to cope with it.

    •Homelessness
  • Katy Butler standing by fence with bird sculpture.
    Feature Story

    On the Art of Dying Well

    A conversation with California author Katy Butler, whose new book spotlights the perverse financial incentives that promote overtreatment and overdiagnosis of patients while failing to reward relationships, thoughtfulness, and harm reduction.

    •Older Adults
  • medical school residents making rounds
    Data Insight

    A Guide to Graduate Medical Education Funding in California

    This comprehensive overview describes the landscape of graduate medical education (GME) funding in California, including sources, amounts, and distribution across the state. This series also includes a report outlining recommendations for expanding GME and seven issue briefs covering key issues…

    •Health Workforce
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    Behind the Headline

    How to Ease the Looming Crisis in California Mental Health Care

    Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: California needs a robust mental health workforce. The California Future Health Workforce Commission recommends practical ways to solve the state’s behavioral health workforce shortages.

    •Behavioral Health