The California Juggernaut

The pending changes to California’s Medicaid program—California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal, known as CalAIM—are getting a lot of attention in the health and human service field, but also from the public. For good reason, annual Medicaid spending in California is $26.8 billion, with 15.4 million MediCal members (see The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis Of The Medi-Cal Budget and DHCS Launches Statewide Media Campaign To Help Californians Keep Their Medi-Cal Coverage). CalAIM has an expansive scope with many simultaneous initiatives—remaking consumer access and continuity of care in a benefit design that has . . .