Medicaid Managed Care’s Impact On Safety-Net Clinics In California

Medicaid Managed Care’s Impact On Safety-Net Clinics In California was published in the January/February 2000 issue of the journal Health Affairs. The report provides an overview of Medi-Cal Managed Care in California, and its effects on community health clinics, and related issues. In order to better understand the impact that the Medi-Cal managed care program has had on California safety-net providers, the Kaiser Family Foundation supported Andrew Bindman, M.D., from the University of California at San Francisco, to study and analyze current trends in Medi-Cal and their effect on safety-net providers. For copies of the reprinted article, please call the Kaiser Family Foundation Publications Request Line at 1-800-656-4533 (ask for document #1576).

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A Risky Proposition? Risk-Bearing and Solvency in California’s Medical Groups — Policy Brief

A Risky Proposition? Risk-Bearing and Solvency in California’s Medical Groups is an 8-page policy brief to provide information about medical groups in California, including a discussion on risk-bearing, solvency, and proposed regulatory approaches. The brief includes a variety of perspectives presented by speakers at a California Health Policy Roundtable held in Sacramento, California on July 20, 1999.

• Roundtable

The HPV Test: Coming Soon to a Doctor’s Office Near You? Is It Better than the Pap Smear for Detecting Cervical Cancer?

The most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S. is one most Americans have never heard of: the human papillomavirus or HPV, the cause of almost all cervical cancer. Now that leading medical journals report that high-risk strains of HPV can be detected, there is debate over the best approach to fighting cervical cancer. Could widespread HPV testing reduce the incidence of cervical cancer, or is the Pap smear still the best first line of defense? What can Americans do to protect themselves and their partners from this STD? And, how will health plans deal with HPV screening – and the women who test positive?

Dr. Mark Schiffman of the National Cancer Institute, and Dr. Thomas C. Wright, Jr., Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, who are the lead authors of articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association about HPV testing, along with other experts, addressed these issues and more at an Emerging Issues in Reproductive Health Briefing. New data on public awareness and knowledge about HPV was also released.

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• Resource List
• HPV Fact Sheet
• STD Fact Sheet
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The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the New President and Congress

This survey captures the public’s attitudes regarding the health care agenda for President Obama and the new Congress in 2009. It assesses the relative priority placed on health care by the American public as part of addressing the economic recession and as a large scale reform issue. The public’s priorities for health care reform and their views on a range of other health policy issues are presented.

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The survey was released at a January 15, 2009, briefing.

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Speaker Biographies

Webcast of briefing

provides an overview of recent data and research on the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on African Americans. The Key Facts document also presents trends in the HIV/AIDS epidemic over time, racial differences in the access to and quality of HIV/AIDS services and includes the attitudes toward and perceptions of HIV/AIDS by race.

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Extending a drug benefit to Medicare beneficiaries has been a highly publicized issue in recent months. To address the question of how to finance and administer such a benefit while controlling its cost, some have proposed using pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)–companies that administer pharmaceutical benefits for health plans, HMOs, and employers while managing drug utilization and obtaining discounts from both retail pharmacies and manufacturers. Most recently, the Clinton Administration introduced a proposal for a Medicare Part D benefit that would use a PBM-focused approach and other private-sector best practices. This report examines the role of PBMs and considers the implications of using PBMs to manage a Medicare drug benefit, based on a review of the literature and interviews with senior executives in the PBM industry and pharmacy benefit consultants.

The Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health National Survey on Health Care and the 2000 Elections is a survey of Americans’ views on health related issues in the upcoming 2000 elections. Among leading findings, voters cited education and health as top issues on their minds for the upcoming 2000 elections. The survey was conducted by telephone between December 3-13, 1999. The survey included a national random sample of 1,515 adults, including 1,257 registered voters.

Health News Index March/April, 2000

The March/April 2000 edition of the Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, Health News Index includes questions about major health stories covered in the news, including questions about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to regulate the marketing of tobacco products. The survey is based on a national random sample of 1,012 Americans conducted March 31-April 3, 2000 which measures public knowledge of health stories covered by news media during the previous month. The Health News Index is designed to help the news media and people in the health field gain a better understanding of which health stories in the news Americans are following and what they understand about those health issues. Every two months, Kaiser/Harvard issues a new index report.

• HNI March-April 2000
• Topline/Survey

This Fact Sheet provides and overview of the current tax subsidies for health insurance, generic subsidy approaches and specific proposals, the effects of tax subsidies, and implementation.

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This report includes a side-by-side analysis of recent tax proposals by Members of Congress and various health organizations designed to increase the number of individuals with private health insurance coverage.

• Recent Tax Proposals To Increase Health Insurance Coverage