DHCS releases 2021 timeline for CalAIM initiative Emily Boerger | Feb 2, 2021
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The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) offered stakeholders a timeline of 2021 “implementation milestones” to support the CalAIM initiative during a relaunching webinar last week.
The agency released an updated CalAIM proposal last month, introducing key changes following stakeholder feedback and adjustments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. DHCS’s release of the updated initiative is the latest step in the department’s effort to implement broad program, delivery system, and payment reform for the Medi-Cal program.
During the first few months of 2021, DHCS will release a handful of draft documents related to the Enhanced Care Management (ECM) and In Lieu of Services (ILOS) components of CalAIM. As part of Medi-Cal reform, DHCS is proposing an enhanced care management benefit that builds off of the current Health Homes Program and Whole Person Care Pi
Bridging the Gap: A Nonprofit’s Efforts to Get Humboldt’s Latinx Residents Health Insurance, Services
Ariel Fishkin, Visión y Compromiso community promotor, tabling in front of El Buen Gusto Market in Eureka. | Photos submitted
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promotores” tabling at local
mercados throughout Humboldt County they’re on a mission to help as many Latinx residents as possible obtain health insurance and access healthcare services.
Visión y Compromiso Humboldt is a new chapter of the nonprofit Southern California based organizational coalition of “
promotores,” or community health worker liaisons, aimed at supporting and creating healthier Latinx communities.
“The thing that we’re doing that no one else is doing is actually meeting people where they are,” says Visión y Compromiso
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom announces appointments to state government
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Four UC Berkeley alumni and faculty were part of the appointments to the state government announced by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. These appointments include Chris Downey to the California Commission on Disability Access, Eric Heins to the California Gambling Control Commission, Saralyn M. Ang-Olson to the California Department of Health Care Services and Arthur Krantz to the California Public Employment Relations Board.
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After years of working for other people, El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells wanted to run his own company, be his own boss.
So when Bruce Hebets, the late CEO of the Borrego Community Health Foundation, offered Wells a job as staff psychologist at the nonprofit healthcare provider five years ago, the mayor had a different idea.
Instead of working directly for the foundation known as Borrego Health, Wells said, he would form his own corporation and provide mental health treatment under a contract with the Borrego Health.
“I had always had a job,” he said. “I wasn’t interested in doing that anymore and I told (Hebets) that. I wanted to start my own business.”
DHCS releases revised CalAIM proposal Emily Boerger | Jan 15, 2021
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The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) released an updated CalAIM proposal last week, introducing key changes following stakeholder feedback and adjustments due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The CalAIM initiative aims to implement broad program, delivery system, and payment reform for the Medi-Cal program. The initiatives three primary goals focus on addressing social determinants of health and adopting whole person care approaches, reduce Medi-Cal complexity while increasing flexibility, and improving outcomes and driving delivery system transformation.
DHCS originally released the CalAIM proposal in October 2019, after which the agency conducted extensive stakeholder meetings. The department then postponed implementation of the CalAIM initiative, originally scheduled for January 2021, to focus on the public health emergency. The new start date is slated for January 1