Health Data

New CHCF Investment Streamlines Care Coordination in the Safety Net

Melissa Buckley

Investing in Innovation, Data Exchange

Health care providers cannot effectively coordinate a patient’s care without access to a shared set of accurate clinical information about that patient. That’s what Collective Medical aims to provide, and that’s why it has received the CHCF Innovation Fund’s latest program-related investment.

For Better Outcomes and Significant Savings, Medi-Cal Must Pay Health Plans Differently

Christopher Perrone

Medi-Cal, Payment & Financing

California can strengthen its use of payment as a tool to drive performance improvements and create greater value in the Medi-Cal program, and to enhance care for Medi-Cal's more than 13 million members.

California’s Unfinished Business: Addressing Health Care Costs

Kristof Stremikis

Health Care Costs

Many of our health policy debates are consequences of an unaffordable health care system. It's important for California to join other states in addressing the problem of why health care costs so much.

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.

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

Telehealth, Investing in Innovation

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 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.