Health Data

Many Californians Have Coverage, but Not Care, for Mental Health Conditions

Catherine Teare, Robbin Gaines

Behavioral Health

Mental health disorders are among the most common chronic illnesses that people face, in the US and here in California, yet too many people miss out on treatment.

Key Impacts of the Affordable Care Act in California

Expanding Health Coverage

On the eighth anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, this collection brings together data products, blogs, and stories that highlight the impact of the law in California and across the country.

Phase Three: Optimization

Phase Two: Implementation

Phase One: Planning

Coverage, Access, and Affordability in California: Key ACA Data 2013-2016

Expanding Health Coverage, Health Care Costs

In 2014, CHCF launched ACA 411, an interactive online tool that helped users track the ACA's impact on California. While we no longer maintain the tool, the data and resources that were used to build it remain available here.

Propeller Health

Propeller Health (formerly Asthmapolis) combines sensors, mobile apps, and services to help patients and their physicians better understand and control chronic respiratory disease to reduce preventable emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and unnecessary suffering.

Data Show Medicaid Expansion Benefited Family Finances

November 17, 2017

Anne Sunderland

Health Care Costs, Medi-Cal

Researchers have found that the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is associated with declining medical debt, fewer personal bankruptcies, improved credit scores, and reduced reliance on predatory lending practices.

Hidden in Plain Sight

November 15, 2017

Medi-Cal, Telehealth

The director of CHCF's Health Innovation Fund talks about entrepreneurial opportunities for innovation within Medicaid. The fund invests in companies trying to improve accessibility, quality, and value for Californians with low incomes.

2017 Edition — Quality of Care: Maternal and Childbirth Health

Maternal Health

While California continues to make progress on the quality of care provided to women during their pregnancies and deliveries, there is room for improvement.

Three Years In, ACA Gains Hold Steady in California

November 2, 2017

Coverage Trends, Medi-Cal

California's uninsured rate remained at historic lows in 2016, with dramatic and statistically significant declines in the uninsured rate across income levels, race/ethnicity, and geography.

California Health Care Spending

Katherine Wilson

Health Care Costs, Payment & Financing

Health spending in California totaled $292 billion in 2014, which is 12.6% of the state's economy. See California's health care spending numbers for private health insurance, Medi-Cal, and Medicare.

2017 Edition — Health Care Costs 101

Katherine Wilson

Health Care Costs, Payment & Financing

US health care spending continued its modest growth in 2016. This was due in part to increased use of services as enrollment in Medicaid and private insurance expanded. This Almanac report, Health Care Costs 101: Spending Rose with More Coverage and Care, takes a look at how much is spent on health care in the US, which services are provided, and who is paying for what.

Infographic — US Health Care Spending: Who Pays?

Health Care Costs, Payment & Financing

Over the past 60 years, the way health care is financed has changed, with public insurance paying for more care. This graphic shows who paid for health care and how much it cost.

ACA Cost-Sharing Reductions Help Low-Income Working Families

August 22, 2017

Coverage Trends

With the heightened focus on the monthly Trump administration decisions on cost-sharing reductions for Affordable Care Act plans, a CHCF expert explains the stakes for California.