Health Data

2016 Edition — Health Care Costs 101

Katherine Wilson

Health Care Costs, Payment & Financing

After five years of slow growth, national health spending grew by 5.3% in 2014, up from 2.9% in 2013. The faster growth was due in part to coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Health Care Costs 101: ACA Spurs Modest Growth, released in 2016, reports on data from 2014.

2019 Edition — California Health Insurers

Katherine Wilson

Coverage Trends, Medi-Cal

California Health Insurers: Large Insurers Remain on Top provides a snapshot of the insurance market in California at the end of 2017. This Almanac report looks at market share, enrollment, financial performance, and consumer satisfaction.

2019 Edition — Quality of Care: Chronic Conditions

This set of quality measures highlights California’s performance across a range of chronic conditions, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease, and includes data by race/ethnicity, payer, and county.

Will the Data Walls Come Tumbling Down?

Xenia Shih Bion

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Electronic health records are supposed to take the US health care system into the 21st century while improving quality of care. Is that dream within reach?

2019 Edition — Californians with Low Incomes

Matthew Newman, Eunice Roh

All Californians should have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Californians with low incomes often face greater barriers to care than those with higher incomes. This Almanac quick reference guide provides a look at the data provided by the 2017 California Health Interview Survey.

CIN Resource Page: Managing Total Cost of Care to Succeed in Risk-Based Payment

Payment & Financing

This resource page from the California Improvement Network contains reports and tools to support success for payers and provider organizations in managing total cost of care and in risk-based payment models.

2013 Edition — Quality of Care

Behavioral Health, Maternal Health

The quality of health care in California is improving, yet significant disparities persist in some areas. This Almanac report, Quality of Care: Steps in the Right Direction, provides data on a number of measures, including childbirth, children's health, and management of patients with common chronic conditions.

Quality of Care — Almanac Collection

Behavioral Health, Maternal Health

The Almanac reports in this collection examine the quality of health care in California. Topics include maternity care, behavioral health, chronic conditions, and providers.

2019 Edition — Quality of Care: Children’s Health

This set of quality measures focuses on children's health and includes vaccination rates, rates of obesity and being overweight, and preventable hospital admissions.

2019 Edition — California’s Health Care Safety Net

Matthew Newman, Eunice Roh

This Almanac report, California’s Health Care Safety Net: A Patchwork of Programs and Providers, presents data on the providers and programs that comprise California’s system for providing health care to people with low incomes.

California Hospitals and Emergency Departments — Almanac Collection

The reports in this Almanac collection examine hospitals and emergency departments, including supply, use of services, finances, and quality.

Behavioral Health in California — Almanac Collection

Behavioral Health

The Almanac publications in this collection provide an overview of mental health and substance use in California. Using the most recent data available, these reports paint a picture of prevalence, supply and use of treatment providers, quality of care, and spending.

2013 Edition — California Hospitals

Lisa Maiuro, Bret Corzine

This Almanac report, California Hospitals: Buildings, Beds, and Business, looks at the state of California's general acute care hospitals in 2010. It examines bed supply and capacity, use of services, financial health, and selected quality measures.

2019 Edition — Medi-Cal Facts and Figures

Len Finocchio, Matthew Newman, Eunice Roh, Blue Sky Consulting Group

Medi-Cal, Coverage Trends

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is the state’s health insurance program for Californians with low incomes, including children, persons with disabilities, seniors, and adults with low incomes. Get the latest data on this program, which covers one in three Californians.

Medi-Cal Facts and Figures — Almanac Collection

Coverage Trends, Medi-Cal

Medi-Cal is the state’s health insurance program for Californians with low incomes, including 40% of all children, half of all people with disabilities, and more than a million seniors. This collection of current and past editions of Medi-Cal Facts and Figures presents data on enrollment, benefits, financing, and access and use.