About Medi-Cal
More than 15 million Californians rely on Medi-Cal, the state’s health care coverage safety net, for health insurance. Two-thirds of those on Medi-Cal are people of color and often live in communities with a lack of adequate health care providers. Without significant investments to support providers that deliver health care to California’s most vulnerable, millions living in rural and underserved areas are in jeopardy.
Medi-Cal is California’s version of the federal program known as Medicaid. To learn more about CHA’s work to protect Medicaid, visit our federal resource page.
DHCS Releases Private Hospital-Directed Payment Encounter Files
10 Million People Expected to Lose Health Insurance Under One Big Beautiful Bill
Reimagining Our Health Care System
Less than three weeks ago, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law, enacting the largest health care cuts in the nation’s history and signifying a new era for how care will be paid for and delivered in America.
CHA Urges CMS to Withdraw Medicaid Tax Proposed Rule
Understanding and Adapting to Health Care’s New Environment
Many conversations are underway about the impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the new law that includes the largest health care cuts in U.S. history — $1 trillion over the next decade.
Federal Medicaid Cuts Will Strip up to $128 Billion from CA Hospitals, CHA Estimates
Federal Medicaid Cuts Will Mean Real Harm to Real People Across California
“The cuts to the Medicaid program will mean real harm to real people in communities large and small across California,” said Carmela Coyle, President & CEO of the California Hospital Association. “These are the largest cuts to our health care system ever enacted and are far too deep for hospitals simply to ‘absorb.’” “Hospitals will […]
A New Era of Health Care Is Coming
“I would also say to anybody who’s designed their business model depending on federal government funding: Get a new model.” – Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
“People say, ‘Well, my hospital is not doing very well.’ Give me the financial statements. I’ll be glad to go through them.” – Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.)