| Goal:
To reduce barriers to efficient, affordable health care services for the underserved. Objectives: - Encourage, test, and promote lower-cost models of care.
- Improve the availability of specialty and dental care for low-income, uninsured, non-English speaking, and rural Californians.
- Promote policy and operational improvements to increase enrollment and retention in publicly sponsored insurance programs.
- Increase the operational efficiency of safety-net institutions.
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Key Publications
The Good Practice: Treating Underserved Dental Patients While Staying Afloat
This report outlines tools and techniques for helping California dental practices contend with the financial limitations of treating low-income and uninsured patients. An issue brief also examines the particular difficulties facing federally qualified health centers.
Telemedicine in California: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
The Future of California's SCHIP Program
Modernizing Enrollment in California's Health Programs for Pregnant Women and Children: A Blueprint for the Future
Health Care in the Express Lane: Retail Clinics Go Mainstream
Denti-Cal Facts and Figures: A Look at California's Medicaid Dental Program
Key Projects
Program Focus: Enrollment Modernization
Featured in the video clip above, this project has developed an easy-to-use, interactive Web-based application and is implementing the new process across the state.
CHCF and SFDPH Healthy San Francisco Innovations Series
Learning Sessions to Support County Coverage Initiatives for the Uninsured
Strengthening California's Safety-Net Clinics
Step by Step: Local Coverage Expansion Initiative
One-e-App: One-Stop Access to Health Care
Guide to Health Programs (Guia de Programas de Salud)
Staff
Media Contact
Steven Birenbaum, Communications Officer
510.587.3157
