Resources & Reports

This report, prepared by BlueSky Consulting for CCHP, examined potential cost savings from AB 415, and estimated savings of more than $1.3 billion a year to Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program.  These savings would come from disease management programs for patients with heart failure and diabetes, and which employ electronic home monitoring systems.

The report also indicated potential savings from other telehealth services, but found a lack of consensus among researchers on cost savings overall from those services.

CCHP’s issue brief explores the benefits to using store-and-forward tele-dermatology, barriers to its use, and reasons why Medi-Cal has been slow to employ more telehealth-delivered dermatology.

CCHP’s collaborative project with the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI) identified barriers that prevented tele-ICUs from playing a key role in California’s health care.

This paper identifies three applications (and barriers) for telehealth technology in skilled nursing care settings that have had recent or ongoing studies that have shown preliminary promise: (1) Teleconsultation in Emergency Care, (2) Teleconsultation with Specialists, and (3) Remote Monitoring Technologies.

This report addresses the question, “would telestroke reduce costs for public payers?” in two different ways. The authors measured: (1) whether telestroke would reduce costs for current Medi-Cal and Medicare enrollees by decreasing the cost of care they receive in their lifetime after a stroke, and (2) whether the Medi-Cal and Medicare programs would experience savings from current and future enrollees by examining an average cohort of 100 telestroke patients.