Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid

<p>California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing and food for some of the state’s sickest and most vulnerable residents. Everyone expected this transformation — known as CalAIM — to take some time to hit its stride. We dig into CalAIM’s early challenges and what’s being done to right the ship.</p><br><p>Guests:</p><p><a href="https://www.ifhomeless.org/leadership-board-bios/pooja-bhalla" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pooja Bhalla</a>, DNP, RN, CEO, Illumination Foundation</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacey-cooper-81a7505/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jacey Cooper</a>, Medicaid Director, California Department of Health Care Services</p><p><a href="https://caloptima.org/en/About/AboutCalOptima/ExecutiveManagement/KellyBruno-Nelson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kelly Bruno-Nelson</a>, MSW, Executive Director of Medi-Cal/CalAIM, CalOptima Health</p><br><p>Learn more and read a full transcript on <a href="https://tradeoffs.org/2023/10/26/calaim-california-medicaid-transformation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our website</a>.</p><br><p>We're also excited to share that you can now find&nbsp;<a href="https://tradeoffs.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ab1fc39a0b1b15521551487c&amp;id=df73a62cac&amp;e=8552a80fb6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tradeoffs on YouTube</a>!&nbsp;</p><br><p>Still not enough Tradeoffs? Sign up for our free <a href="https://tradeoffs.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6ab1fc39a0b1b15521551487c&amp;id=89c5edcb93&amp;utm_source=twitter-newsletter-signup&amp;utm_medium=twitter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">weekly newsletter</a> featuring the latest health policy research and news.</p><br><p>Support this type of journalism today, <a href="https://tradeoffs.org/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">with a gift</a>.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color: