California

in 2010, California was approved for a Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver launching the Bridge to Reform which resulted in several changes including expanding Medicaid coverage, reforming safety-net hospitals, and promoting coordinated systems of care for dual eligibles and persons with disabilities. The Delivery System Reform Incentive Pool (DSRIP) is a program offering safety-net hospitals in California funds to make investments in infrastructure, system design and improvements in population health. More than half of participating hospitals expanded medical homes which included expanding primary care capacity, chronic care management, and integration of physical and behavioral health care. Under the Bridge to Reform, the California Children's Services Program Demonstration included pilot programs to improve coordination of care through medical homes, improve satisfaction with care, and develop family-centered care.  In 2012, a waiver amendment provided for the California Duals Demonstration program - Cal MediConnect - that will be implemented in eight California counties in 2014. The program aims to improve care coordination for dual eligible beneficiaries and drive high quality care through medical homes.

California encourages issuers selling Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) in the Marketplace, Covered California, to assist enrollees in selecting a primary care provider, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) or a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) within 60 days of enrollment.

CHIPRA: 
No
MAPCP: 
No
Dual Eligible: 
Yes
2703 Health Home: 
No
CPCi: 
No
SIM Awards: 
Yes
PCMH in QHP: 
Yes
Legislative PCMH Initiative: 
Yes
Private Payer Program: 
Yes
State Facts: 
Population:
38,114,300
Uninsured Population:
15%
Total Medicaid Spending FY 2013: 
$61.9 Billion 
Overweight/Obese Adults:
60.1%
Poor Mental Health among Adults: 
36.8%
Medicaid Expansion: 
Yes

Cigna Collaborative Accountable Care (CAC) Program - Brown and Toland Physicians

The goal of the Collaborative Accountable Care (CAC) program is to better coordinate care. Primary care and specialty care doctors will work together toward improved quality, better health outcomes and lower health care costs. Critical to the program's benefits are clinical care coordinators, including nurses, physicians, and other professionals, employed by Brown & Toland, who help patients with chronic conditions or other health challenges navigate the health care system.

Cigna Collaborative Accountable Care (CAC) Program - Healthcare Partners Medical Group

Cigna and HealthCare Partners Medical Group in Southern California launched a collaborative accountable care initiative to improve patient access to healthcare, enhance care coordination, and achieve the “triple aim” of improved health, affordability and patient experience. The program became effective April 1, 2013.

Challenge to Achieve the Triple Aim - Lifelong Medical Care

LifeLong Medical Care is receiving a CMS Health Care Innovation Award to further integrate care and encourage healthy behavior among 3250 seniors and other adults with disabilities who are Medicaid and dual Medicare/Medicaid-eligible beneficiaries. The goal is to reduce avoidable emergency room and hospital visits. The intervention will train adults with disabilities to support adoption of healthy behaviors among their peers and to encourage self management, with the support of a team of nurse care managers.

Aligning Forces for Quality - Humboldt University

The Humboldt County-AF4Q initiative is a collaborative project of many local organizations and individuals interested in improving the quality of health care. The effort fosters a high-quality, integrated, patient-centered system of care that is accessible to all North Coast residents. The project has three aims - provider measurement and public reporting, patient involvement, and medical care improvement activities - to improve the medical care and self-care of patients, particularly those with diabetes.

Advanced Illness Management (AIM) program - Sutter Health

Sutter Health is recieving a $13,000,000 CMS Health Care Innovation Award to expand their Advanced Illness Management program (AIM) across the entire Sutter Health system in Northern California, serving patients who have severe chronic illness but are not ready for hospice care, are in clinical, functional, or nutritional decline, and are high-level consumers of health care.

Intensive Outpatient Care Program - Pacific Business Group on Health

The Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) is receiving a CMS Health Care Innovation Award to work with various provider groups and health plans in rural and urban counties throughout California to improve care coordination for 30,000 Medicare and dual-eligible Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries at risk from multiple chronic conditions. The Intensive Outpatient Care Program uses well trained care managers embedded in high-performing primary care teams to develop close relationships with medically complex patients and deliver highly individualized and accessible primary care, based on treatmen

Alzheimer's and Dementia Patient-Centered Care Project - UCLA

The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles, are receiving a CMS Health Care Innovation Award to expand a new program to provide coordinated, comprehensive, patient and family-centered, and efficient care for approximately 1000 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. The UCLA Health System operates in the western area of Los Angeles County.

Ravenswood Family Health Center Innovation Project - South County Community Health Center

South County Community Health Center (Ravenswood Family Health Center) in partnership with Health Plan of San Mateo, San Mateo County Health System, and Nuestra Casa, is receiving a CMS Health Care Innovation Award to create a health disparities collaborative for over 19 thousand people with diabetes in a multi-cultural, high-risk, high-cost population in southeast San Mateo County, California. This project will train a multi-cultural staff that will, in a responsive and culturally appropriate manner, support and motivate patients to follow and adhere to evidence-based care plans.

Cigna Accountable Care Organization - Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Cigna and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), a not-for-profit health care organization that is a pioneer in the multi-specialty group practice of medicine, have launched a collaborative accountable care initiative to expand patient access to health care, improve care coordination, and achieve the “triple aim” of improved health outcomes (quality), lower total medical costs and increased patient satisfaction. It links doctors, hospitals and a single health plan together with the goal of reducing health care costs by improving patients' health.

Pharmacy Services in Safety-Net Clinics - University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is receiving a CMS Health Care Innovation Award to integrate clinical pharmacy services into safety net clinics, providing medication therapy management, disease state management, medicine reconciliation, medication access services, patient counseling, drug information education, preventive care programs, provider education, and quality improvement review for care providers and for the underserved and vulnerable populations of Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, and Garden Grove.

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