To slow the growth of health care spending and improve coordination and quality of care, providers and payers are working together to change how care is delivered and paid for.

Los Angeles is a large, densely populated, racially and ethnically diverse county with wide income variation, traits that contribute to a fragmented health care market.

San Diego hospitals remain stable, but face increasing cost pressures from payers emphasizing provider affordability and value.

Orange County has largely recovered from the economic downturn, yet socioeconomic variation persists, and Medi-Cal coverage has spiked.

Insurance coverage and financial stability have greatly improved in the Fresno region, but capacity and access challenges have grown.

Though the economy in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties continues to recover from the 2008 recession, high rates of uninsured remain.

The Sacramento region's health care sector has been mostly stable, but capacity constraints and access challenges remain. This report provides a snapshot.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, health care empires are being built as providers form affiliations with other providers and with health plans. This interactive infographic provides a county-by-county look at which health players are consolidating control of the market.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, large players are consolidating control of hospitals and physician organizations. This issue brief documents the region's fast-evolving health care marketplace.

A study finds that even with new federal resources to help, communities with weaker safety-net systems are lagging in preparations for health reform.