Medicaid

Presumptive Eligibility: Creating a Pathway to Ongoing Medi-Cal Coverage

Two studies point to opportunities for California to enhance presumptive eligibility and hospital presumptive eligibility so that both processes become pathways to ongoing Medi-Cal coverage.

Advancing Latino/x Health Equity

The California Health Care Foundation is focused on advancing policies and practices that will improve timely access to high-quality primary, specialty, and mental health care for Latino/x Californians and eliminate avoidable differences in health outcomes.

Here Are Key Mental Health Provisions in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

September 28, 2022

Alyssa Llamas, Dawn Joyce

Behavioral Health

While the funding of mental health services in the measure is substantial, it did not address many needed investments and policy changes.

Tech Accelerators Open Doors for Health Care Entrepreneurs of Color

September 22, 2022

Barbara Feder Ostrov

Investing in Innovation, Health Equity

The CHCF Innovation Fund supports tech accelerators to bolster companies with the potential to significantly lower health costs or improve access to care for Californians with low incomes.

October 11, 2022

Webinar – A National Conversation on a Measurement Framework for Accountability in Medicaid

Health Equity, Medi-Cal

October 11, 2022

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), with support from CHCF, has developed a health equity measurement framework that state Medicaid programs can use to measure accountability in health plan managed care contracting. Join NCQA on October 11 for a conversation on how this framework can be leveraged to promote equity in Medicaid and beyond.

Advancing Health Equity: A Recommended Health Equity Framework for Accountability in Medicaid

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Health Equity, Medi-Cal

With support from CHCF, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) developed a health equity measurement framework that state Medicaid programs can use to measure accountability in health plan managed care contracting.

Summary of Medicaid State Plan Amendments for Community Health Workers

This chart summarizes state plan amendments to CMS from seven states seeking authorization for CHWs to serve a broad Medicaid population.

The Health and Reentry Project

Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal

This national effort seeks to promote continuity of health care between correctional and community settings. The project has published three papers about potential federal Medicaid policy changes that would permit covering people leaving incarceration in the period shortly before they formally leave the correctional system.

Medi-Cal and the End of the Federal Continuous Coverage Requirement

Coverage Trends

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, California resumed its normal processes to redetermine eligibility for Medi-Cal enrollees in April 2023. It will be imperative to help many of these Californians transition to other types of coverage and to ensure that those who remain eligible keep their Medi-Cal coverage.

Innovation at the Intersection of Health Care and Homelessness

Medi-Cal, Homelessness & Health Care

A conversation with California’s Medicaid director, Jacey Cooper, about how CalAIM will bring together a broad range of stakeholders to improve the health of Medi-Cal members experiencing homelessness.

Helping Californians Maintain Coverage After the Public Health Emergency

California’s success in avoiding unnecessary Medi-Cal disenrollment and smoothing transitions to other coverage will be crucial.

Behavioral Health Mobile Crisis Response Services in Medi-Cal

Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal

Too often, the first response to people experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis is law enforcement. Communities across California are working to retool their approach to people undergoing behavioral health crises by developing mobile crisis response services. The state's Medi-Cal program added these services as a benefit in January 2023.

Advancing Black Health Equity

Health Equity, Workforce

It is incumbent on California, working at all levels and across systems, to break down entrenched barriers to quality health care for Black Californians. CHCF is working with partners to support crosscutting health systems work and to improve birth care, experiences, and outcomes for, by, and with Black mothers and birthing people in California.

Mobile Crisis Teams: A State Planning Guide for Medicaid-Financed Crisis Response Services

Behavioral Health

This paper provides a review of the requirements of the American Rescue Plan Act as it pertains to community-based mobile crisis intervention services. It also highlights state considerations that will support a more robust crisis continuum, including 988 planning.

Federal Policy Recommendations to Support State Implementation of Medicaid-Funded Mobile Crisis Programs

Behavioral Health

In light of new federal funding policies and the upcoming launch of the 988 behavioral health crisis line, this paper identifies important issues in mobile crisis implementation and describes ways that federal agencies could support state and local efforts.