Medicaid

The Work of Family Caregiving: Invisible, Costly, and Taxing

December 6, 2021

Heather Tirado Gilligan

Medi-Cal, Older Adults with Complex Needs

Stories That Caught Our Attention: As members of the huge baby boom generation start turning 80 in 2025, the pressures of caregiving will only intensify.

Innovation Landscape

Investing in Innovation

The Innovation Fund conducts a series of high-level landscape analyses on issues ripe for tech-enabled innovation. The Innovation Landscape Series aims to inform funders and customers in safety-net organizations seeking scalable solutions to meet their challenges.

Digital Start-Up Is Transforming Mental Health Care in Schools

September 28, 2021

Behavioral Health, Health Equity, Investing in Innovation, Medi-Cal

The CHCF Health Innovation Fund has invested in Hazel Health’s vision for critical services for students and young adults.

Remote Patient Monitoring in the Safety Net: What Payers and Providers Need to Know

AVIA, Public Health Institute

Telehealth, Investing in Innovation

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a type of telehealth that involves the secure transfer of personal health and medical data to a provider for remote monitoring, care, and support. Providers, payers, and all Californians have an interest in leveraging technologies such as RPM that can assist in the management of chronic illnesses.

Celebrating — and Building On — Today’s Supreme Court Decision

Sandra R. Hernández

Today, more than five million Californians can rest assured that their health care will not be ripped away from them.

Undocumented Projected to Remain California’s Largest Group of Uninsured in 2022

Miranda Dietz, Laurel Lucia, Srikanth Kadiyala, Tynan Challenor, Annie Rak, Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski

Expanding Health Coverage, Medi-Cal, Coverage Trends

Even after the American Rescue Plan increases premium subsidies for health insurance purchased through Covered California, large inequities remain in who has access to affordable coverage.

California Dermatologists Offer Equitable Care to Dark-Skinned Patients

Health Equity, Workforce

In dermatology, where differences in patient skin color influence diagnosis and treatment, a legacy of structural racism is powerful and ongoing.

COVID-19 Relief: The Down Payment America Needs

Sandra R. Hernández

Expanding Health Coverage, Health Equity

The American Rescue Plan Act is a bold and comprehensive federal response built on an accurate understanding of the roots of the pandemic crises.

What Are the Biden Administration’s Health Policy Priorities?

Billy Wynne, Dawn Joyce

Expanding Health Coverage, Maternal Health

When it comes to health care, the fledgling administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hit the ground running.

Technology Innovation in Medicaid: What to Expect in the Next Decade

Investing in Innovation

To learn what Medicaid innovation to expect over the next decade, Manatt Health surveyed and interviewed over 200 health care leaders across government, providers, plans, tech companies, community-based organizations, and investment firms. The paper explore the future for issues like telehealth, care coordination, social determinants of health, and behavioral health integration.

What’s Next for Federal Health Policy Under a Biden Administration?

December 1, 2020

Anne Sunderland

In a CHCF webinar, national health policy expert Billy Wynne explains what he expects from the next president.

When the Court Speaks, What Will It Say About the ACA?

November 23, 2020

Xenia Shih Bion

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The Supreme Court on November 10 heard oral arguments in California v. Texas, the third time a major legal challenge to the ACA has reached the high court.

Remembering Philip R. Lee

November 6, 2020

Xenia Shih Bion

Philip R. Lee, MD, a California health policy leader who mentored future physician leaders and helped establish the Medicare program in 1965, is dead at 96.

Dual Purpose: Opportunities for Technology to Help People Enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare

October 30, 2020

Melissa Buckley

Investing in Innovation

A conversation with Andrey Ostrovsky, MD, an angel investor and former chief medical officer of the federal Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services.

Californians with Low Incomes Struggle to Navigate Both Medi-Cal and Medicare

October 28, 2020

Amber Christ, Georgia Burke

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

One might think dual enrollment in Medicare and Medi-Cal should provide relief from health coverage worries, but many of the 1.4 million Californians with low incomes who are enrolled in both programs find it as much a struggle as a help.