Resources

This chartbook, “Chronic Conditions Experienced by Californians with Original Medicare in 2021”, is the fifth in a series exploring the demographics, needs, and health care experiences of Californians with Medicare.

Some Medi-Cal benefits are similar to Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits. For dual eligible members, Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits may expand the covered items or services they are eligible to receive.

This chartbook examines supplemental benefits offered by Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in California in contract year 2023. Supplemental benefits are not covered by Traditional Medicare and vary by MA plan.

This chartbook examines key racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural demographics of Californians with Medicare.

The Better Care Playbook makes it easy for health care stakeholders to find evidence-based and promising practices for improving complex care. 

Californians’ personal health experience and difficulty paying for care are impacted by income disparities – findings from a 2022 survey of adults age 55 and older in California.

Few older Californians have care managers to coordinate their care – findings from a 2022 survey of adults age 55 and older in California.

New survey explores the needs, experiences, and opinions of California’s current and future Medicare beneficiaries.

This report from the Bipartisan Policy Center offers a roadmap of policy solutions that Congress and federal agencies should still consider to address the needs of those with complex care needs.

One-third of people 50 and older report rarely or never having their care preferences taken into account by their clinicians, with more people of color and lower-income individuals saying so.

This chartbook offers data on the California Medicare population to inform stakeholders on this growing cohort of beneficiaries.

Federal and state governments enacted significant flexibilities during COVID-19 to ensure that Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries could receive care in community.

Now entering their second year, Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) have grown exponentially.

The CHRONIC Care Act updates fundamental principles of the Medicare program by allowing Medicare Advantage plans, for the first time, to pay for services that are not primarily health-related, and to target these services.

The CHRONIC Care Act was passed and signed on February 9, 2018. This policy brief provides a summary of key components of the law.