CAHP Fact Sheet: Get the Facts on Big Pharma-Backed SB 873
SB 873 has been disguised as prescription drug cost-saving legislation that will benefit patients, but in reality, SB 873 is a Big Pharma-sponsored bill that will increase premiums for all while doing nothing to rein in prescription drug prices. In fact, the bill actually clears the way for Big Pharma to continue increasing the prices of expensive brand-name drugs with no accountability.
CAHP Fact Sheet: Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans Making A Difference For Enrollees Through Cal-AIM
California’s Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans are partnering with the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) on CalAIM — a multiyear initiative to improve health equity, quality of life, and health outcomes by evolving the Medi-Cal program.
CAHP Research Spotlight: Medi-Cal Whole Person Care Pilot Program Improved Care For High-Risk Patients
A recent University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) study found that California’s Whole Person Care (WPC) pilot program, which started in 2016 and ended in 2021, helped improve coordination of care and cut Medi-Cal costs for the state’s highest-risk patients.
ICYMI – The Wall Street Journal: The U.K.’s Government-Run Health Care Service is in Crisis
The Wall Street Journal this week published an article revealing the real-world struggles the U.K.’s government-run health care system is facing, even though it is often held up as a model system by activists seeking to establish a single-payer health care system here in the U.S. and California.
CAHP Press Release – CAHP Issues Statement on Governor’s January 2023-2024 State Budget
California Association of Health Plans President and CEO Charles Bacchi today issued the following statement in response to Governor Gavin Newsom’s release of the 2023-24 state budget proposal.
CAHP Fact Sheet: California’s Health Care Dollar
The vast majority of health plan spending in California goes to pay for medical services like hospital and doctor visits, prescription drugs, lab tests, x-ray, and medical supplies. In 2021, health plans spent nearly $207 billion, or 87 cents out of every health plan dollar, on medical care.
CAHP Press Release – CAHP Names New Legislative Advocate
The California Association of Health Plans (CAHP) today announced that Robert Boykin has joined the CAHP team as the association’s new legislative advocate. Boykin will help guide CAHP’s legislative advocacy efforts at the State Capitol.
CAHP Fact Sheet: Providing high quality health care through Medi-Cal Managed Care
With more than 14.7 million enrollees, California’s Medicaid program (Medi-Cal) provides comprehensive medical, behavioral, and mental health care benefits and services to one in three Californians. Within Medi-Cal, an estimated 12.4 million members are enrolled in Medi-Cal Managed Care, providing some of California’s most vulnerable populations with well-rounded services for improved health outcomes.
CAHP Fact Sheet: Prior Authorization Protects Patients From Low-Value Health Care
Californians deserve safe, high quality, high-value health care. Yet recent legislative efforts to dismantle prior authorization threaten to derail the progress we have made in our health care system by lowering the value and safety that Californians should expect and deserve from their health care providers.
CAHP Fact Sheet: Say No to SB 250: A Prescription for Low-Value Healthcare
Californians deserve safe, high quality, high-value health care. Yet SB 250 will derail the progress we have made in our health care system by lowering the value and safety that Californians should expect from their health care providers.
Your Plan Your Advocate Fact Sheet: Health Plans 101: Covering California's Essential Benefits