Medi-Cal’s Population Health Management Program: Advancing Shared Medicaid and Public Health Data Processes and Infrastructure

Driving health equity and eliminating health disparities has been a core tenet for California's public programs. With more than 1 5 million people in California covered by Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, there are approximately one in three individuals and one in two children and y...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2023-12, Vol.113 (12), p.1283-1286
Main Authors: Sharma, Sristi, Babaria, Palav, Tian, David, Scott, Linette
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agreements
COVID-19 vaccines
Data
Fairness
Health care
Health disparities
Health services
Immunization
Indigent care
Infrastructure
Medicaid
Public health
Public health departments
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Summary:Driving health equity and eliminating health disparities has been a core tenet for California's public programs. With more than 1 5 million people in California covered by Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, there are approximately one in three individuals and one in two children and youths who receive health care through MediCal.1 The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which administers Medi-Cal, has historically worked closely with state and local public health departments, includingthe California Department of Public Health (CDPH), to support data sharing and data infrastructure.In January 2022, the DHCS embarked on a multiyear transformational set of initiatives called California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) to transform health care, including launching a statewide population health management (PHM) program to introduce new benefits and services to promote whole-person care.2 We highlight the existing DHCS and CDPH partnerships for data processes and infrastructure, key lessons learned, and how the collaboration will further support the CalAIM PHM program.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2023.307466