The draft RFP for Medi-Cal managed care procurement is a significant step forward, but California must do more to eliminate disparities in access and outcomes

The Inland Empire Health Plan's new CEO is continuing the trailblazing path that Californians have come to expect from the large and influential managed care plan.

One of California's largest public health departments is teaching its staff the art and science of asking good questions.

Far more patients with low incomes seek specialty care than there are specialists to help them. A physician describes one tonic for California's overtaxed specialty referral system.

Nowhere is the need to measure racial and ethnic health disparities greater than in California, one of the few states where people of color compose the majority of the population.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Shifting to value-based payments could encourage Medi-Cal managed care plans to meet or exceed quality metrics.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Take a look at America's cesarean section capital to see how challenging it is to reduce surgical childbirth for low-risk, first-time mothers.

Over the last decade, California hasn't seen the level of quality improvement expected from Medi-Cal, one of the state's most important programs.

At an Oakland clinic, patients who once lived on the streets are helping to improve care for the unsheltered.

California is one of 22 states that do not permit nurse practitioners to practice and prescribe without ongoing physician oversight. Journalist Heather Stringer traveled to Colorado to see how nurse practitioners are being deployed in two rural communities.

An expert in US and state health policy explains how federal regulations provide an overdue opportunity for Medi-Cal to reconsider how managed care is organized and incentivized.

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.