5 Things California: May Revise, Abortion protections, Statewide HIE preparedness
Eli Kirshbaum | May 19, 2022 | California
5 Things California: Vaccine policy, Undocumented coverage gap, Maternal health disparities
Eli Kirshbaum | Mar 2, 2022 | California
5 Things California: Q&A w/ Sen. Wiener, Health bills, BH report
Eli Kirshbaum | Feb 17, 2022 | California
5 Things California: CHCF report, Health data, Medi-Cal food benefit
Eli Kirshbaum | Feb 3, 2022 | California
What They're Watching: Kristof Stremikis, California Health Care Foundation
Eli Kirshbaum | Jan 18, 2022 | California
For Kristof Stremikis, director of market analysis and insight at California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), lowering the cost of health care is top-of-mind heading into 2022. The increasing costs of health services, he said, are causing many Californians to defer their care—which is likely to have damaging impacts on the
5 Things California: Asm. Waldron's health priorities, Aetna & Community Supports, HCBS data gaps
Eli Kirshbaum | Dec 28, 2021 | California
This is the last California "5 Things" newsletter of 2021. What a year it has been—everyone inside and outside of the health policy space faced numerous challenges this year as the pandemic continued to disrupt "normal" life. From our team to you, thank you for all of the work you
Requiring video as part of telehealth visits can increase patient use of video over audio-only
Eli Kirshbaum | Sep 1, 2021 | California
At West County Health Centers (WCHC), the use of video telehealth visits, compared to audio-only, rose from 15% to 50% during the pandemic, which the organization’s CEO Dr. Jason Cunningham said is largely because the facility made it a requirement for patients to use video during telehealth visits. Cunningham described
Analysis illustrates California safety net facilities' experience implementing telehealth
Eli Kirshbaum | Aug 30, 2021 | California
Telehealth use in California’s safety net hospitals increased from 4% before the pandemic to 55-75% post-pandemic, according to Natasha Arora, evaluation and learning associate at the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF)’s Center for Community Health and Evaluation. Through its Connected Care Accelerator Innovation Learning Collaborative (CCA ILC), CHCF gathered clinical
Stakeholders raise concerns about lack of completeness and clarity in DHCS's MMC draft RFP
Eli Kirshbaum | Aug 12, 2021 | California
In an analysis of stakeholder comments on the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS)’s Medi-Cal Managed Care Draft RFP, the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) found one of the most prominent themes to be a lack of completeness and clarity. CHCF invited stakeholders to share the comments they submitted
5 Things California: State of the State, Convening Panel, Beth Andersen
DJ Wilson | Feb 19, 2020 | California
Early voting is underway for the March 3rd presidential primary, where the haul of delegates from California (495) will swamp the early delegate counts from Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina (155). My money is on a brokered convention, where no candidate enters the DNC with a majority of delegates.