Medi-Cal Waiver

February 25, 2019

Briefing — Medi-Cal Explained: An Overview of Program Basics

February 25, 2019

This briefing provided an overview of the basics of the Medi-Cal program, including eligibility and enrollment, organization, oversight, and financing.

Medi-Cal Moves Addiction Treatment into the Mainstream

Molly Brassil, Carol Backstrom, Erynne Jones

Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal

A fundamental shift is underway in California to expand, improve, and reorganize Medi-Cal’s system for treating people with substance use disorders. This report summarizes the experiences of the first counties to implement this new approach.

Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System

Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal

In Medi-Cal, treatment for patients with substance use disorder has long been run out of a separate program. Now California is implementing a broad move to modernize this system of care.

Understanding the Rules: Federal Legal Considerations for State-Based Approaches to Expand Coverage in California

Expanding Health Coverage, Coverage Trends

California policymakers and other stakeholders are exploring state-based approaches to expand or improve coverage within the state. This paper illuminates federal legal issues that need to be considered under each approach.

As People Leave Jail and Prison, Clinics Connect Them to Needed Health Services

Jane Garcia, David Panush

Under the ACA, many people leaving jail are newly eligible for Medi-Cal, and some forward-thinking clinics are helping them access care that is profoundly improving their lives.

One Man’s Story Shows Why Medi-Cal Must Provide Whole-Person Care

September 14, 2016

Anne Sunderland

Experts in Sacramento for a CHCF briefing shared important perspectives on the importance of changing the way Medi-Cal promotes coordinated treatment of mind and body.

How Will the Nation’s First Organized Delivery System for Drug Treatment Services in Medicaid Succeed?

Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal

The California Senate Office of Research points out some of the hurdles that must be overcome in the implementation of Medi-Cal's new approach to drug treatment services.

Across the Tracks: To End Homelessness, See the Whole Person

Sandra R. Hernández

Medi-Cal, Homelessness & Health Care

The rising rate of homelessness is a call to action. It is time to make health care work for all Californians.

Medi-Cal 2020: New Waiver in Sight but Long-Term Vision Needed

November 2, 2015

Christopher Perrone

CHCF's Chris Perrone proposes a policy agenda for moving critical Medi-Cal reforms forward in the wake of the Medi-Cal 2020 waiver agreement.

Transforming Medi-Cal: Where Do We Go from Here?

January 20, 2015

Christopher Perrone

California is nearing the end of a five-year federal waiver that has provided essential funding and flexibility to help modernize the state's $95 billion Medicaid program, Medi-Cal. In many ways, California's waiver has sparked crucial changes.

December 16, 2014

Forum on Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP)

Expanding Health Coverage, Medi-Cal

December 16, 2014

Hear experts from California and other states with DSRIP programs discuss differences in design, identify lessons learned, and foster new insights and ideas as California redesigns its program.