CalAIM

CIN Podcast — Health Strategies Radio

Homelessness & Health Care, Health Equity

The initial podcast episodes focus on effective ways to establish partnerships between health care providers and community-based organizations that offer housing, nutrition, and transportation services to patients.

Perspectives from the Field: Developing the Enhanced Care Management Workforce

Camden Coalition

This short paper condenses interviews with numerous frontline workers and managers at organizations participating in Enhanced Care Management. Learn about the challenges they face in recruiting and retention, and the types of training effective for new staff.

Medi-Cal Managed Care and Long-Term Services and Supports

Chapman Consulting

This report explores some design options for implementing Medi-Cal Managed Care and Long-Term Services and Supports that policymakers, agency leaders, advocates, and other stakeholders can consider as this work unfolds.

Tech Start-up Dives Into Medi-Cal Enhanced Care Management

Investing in Innovation, Medi-Cal, Homelessness & Health Care, Behavioral Health

Pair Team, a CHCF investee, supports delivery of services established through the CalAIM initiative.

New CHCF Poll Shows Californians’ Concerns About Obtaining Home-Based Supports

February 16, 2023

Health Equity, Medi-Cal, Older Adults with Complex Needs, Workforce

From personal experience, Californians are acutely aware of our health systems’ weaknesses serving older adults and others with chronic illnesses or disabilities.

Getting Out of Prison Is ‘Terrifying’

February 13, 2023

Nisi Marie Wilder, J. Duncan Moore, Jr.

Medi-Cal, Behavioral Health, Health Equity

A Californian recounts her experience of being released from incarceration before her Medi-Cal coverage kicked in.

Billing Better in CalAIM

Aurrera Health Group

This issue brief outlines key challenges with each step of the billing process and technological and process-oriented recommendations for addressing them. Recommendations reflect potential strategies that could be implemented by the Department of Health Care Services, managed care plans, and providers in the current delivery system.

Knitting Together Health and Social Services in Los Angeles

January 25, 2023

Homelessness & Health Care

An interview with Dr. Clemens Hong at the LA County Department of Health Services.

Housing-Related Community Supports

Corporation for Supportive Housing

Homelessness & Health Care

This handbook was produced to help managed care plans (MCPs) navigate what may be unfamiliar territory and to support them in establishing and strengthening relationships with partners in the housing-related sector. The handbook provides key considerations, useful steps, and best practices that MCP staff will need to successfully implement the housing-related Community Supports.

New Rules to Let Inmates Enroll in Medi-Cal Before They Leave Prison or Jail

January 11, 2023

Medi-Cal, Health Equity

Although jail and prison inmates are eligible for Medi-Cal after release, they often have long waits before health services begin. The change is expected to improve care and reduce expensive emergency room visits.

Community-Based Organizations to Join Reimagined California Improvement Network

January 9, 2023

Kathryn Phillips

Equity is at the center of future quality improvement work in California. Learn about the community-based organizations joining CIN as peers and partners in 2023.

Reflections on CalAIM’s First Year

January 9, 2023

Medi-Cal, Health Equity, Behavioral Health, Data Exchange, Homelessness & Health Care

A review of what CalAIM has already undertaken and a look over the horizon at what is still to come.

Prescription for Better Health: A Home

December 14, 2022

Claudia Boyd-Barrett

Homelessness & Health Care

In Los Angeles County, a 10-year-old program has moved 20,000 formerly homeless people with complex health needs into housing. It now serves as a model for communities nationwide.

How a Managed Care Plan Helped a Young Man Move Out of a Nursing Home

December 13, 2022

J. Duncan Moore, Jr.

Effective January 1, Medi-Cal policy and payment changes under CalAIM will make it easier for long-term nursing home patients to transition to settings in the community.

A Game Changer for Street Medicine: Key Takeaways from New Medi-Cal Guidelines

In November 2022, California’s Department of Health Care Services shared an "All Plan Letter" that could make it easier for communities to establish, maintain, and fully leverage street medicine programs.This issue brief lays out the major implications of this new guidance, along with key issues that remain.