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Medi-Cal's Population Health Management Program: Advancing Shared Medicaid and Public Health Data Processes and Infrastructure.
Am J Public Health
December 2023
All authors are with the California Department of Health Care Services, Sacramento, CA.
Implementation of a Comprehensive Tobacco-Cessation Policy in Medicaid Managed Care Plans in California.
Am J Prev Med
October 2020
Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
Introduction: In 2016, the California Department of Health Care Services issued All Plan Letter 16-014 to the Medi-Cal Managed Care plans to provide information on requirements for comprehensive tobacco-cessation services. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego set out to (1) examine Medi-Cal's Managed Care plans' progress in implementing each section of All Plan Letter 16-014, (2) understand various factors related to implementation of the All Plan Letter, and (3) make recommendations to improve implementation.
Methods: Researchers surveyed health educators within California's 25 Medi-Cal Managed Care plans to document each one's smoking-cessation services and policies in 2018.
Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Response to Incentives for Quitline Engagement.
Am J Prev Med
December 2018
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California.
Introduction: Certain racial and ethnic minorities have lower utilization of tobacco cessation services, such as Helpline counseling and cessation medications. The goal of the California Medicaid (Medi-Cal) Incentives to Quit Smoking Program was to facilitate successful cessation by promoting modest financial and cessation medication-related incentives to increase engagement with the California Smokers' Helpline counseling services. Differences in the response to incentives and outreach on engagement with Helpline services among racial/ethnic groups within the Medi-Cal population were examined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInforming public policy toward binational health insurance: empirical evidence from California.
Salud Publica Mex
November 2015
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Objective: To estimate reimbursement rate differences between Mexico and US based physicians reimbursed by a binational health insurance (BHI) plan and US payers, respectively; and show the relationship between plan benefit designs and health care utilization in Mexico.
Materials And Methods: Data include 33,841 and 53,909 HMO enrollees in California from Sistemas Médicos Nacionales (SIMNSA) and Salud con Health Net, respectively. We use descriptive statistical methods.
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