California's massive new experiment will change how vulnerable patients get care. Will it work? [centerforhealthjournalism.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/28/225:21 PM

By Giles Bruce, Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images, Center for Health Journalism, April 25, 2022

California is embarking on a potentially transformative shift in the way it delivers health care, using its Medicaid program to help meet the social needs of many of its most vulnerable residents.

Under the CalAIM initiative, $6 billion will be spent over the next five years to address the social forces shaping health, in such unique ways as paying for housing, cleaning up asthma triggers in the home, and helping people transition out of incarceration.

“I would argue, and my reporting shows, this is the biggest transformation any state is undertaking on health care right now,” Kaiser Health News senior California correspondent Angela Hart told the 2022 California Fellowship this week via Zoom.

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