CalAIM, Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports

Health Net is ending its Medi-Cal assisted living benefit for about 3,500 members at year-end, and two partner plans intend to follow

Event: Aug 17

Health Net is canceling its assisted living benefit at the end of 2026 for approximately 3,500 Medi-Cal members, most of them elderly and many with dementia, CalMatters reported on August 17, 2026; CalViva Health and Community Health Plan of Imperial Valley…

DHCS still lists the July Community Supports changes as proposed after the comment window closed

Event: Jul 20

DHCS's current ECM and Community Supports resource page, reviewed August 24, still identifies the April 2025 Volume 1 and Volume 2 guides as the operative guides and lists the July 2026 Volume 1 and selected housing changes as proposed updates.

Redwoods Rural Health Center Cuts Its Community Supports Program in Southern Humboldt as Federal and State Funding Reductions Bite

Event: Jun 29

Redwoods Rural Health Center — the FQHC serving Southern Humboldt County, with a second site in Fortuna — announced 'strategic organizational adjustments' in a social-media post…

CHCF evaluation: its CHW initiative trained or hired 350 workers across 28 organizations, but Medi-Cal payment alone rarely sustains the work

Event: Aug 7

The California Health Care Foundation published an evaluation by Bright Research Group on August 7, 2026 of its Amplifying Impact Initiative, launched in 2024 with support from the Cedars-Sinai Foundation to scale community health worker, promotor…

AB 403, CHW/Promotora Medi-Cal Services Transparency Act Advances

AB 403 (Asm. Liz Ortega, D-20) would require DHCS, beginning July 1, 2027, to publish an annual analysis of Community Health Worker / Promotora / Representative Medi-Cal benefit utilization, reimbursements, and CHW/beneficiary demographics.

AB 403 Would Force DHCS to Publicly Report CHW/Promotora Medi-Cal Use, After Fewer Than 6,000 of 15M Beneficiaries Accessed the Benefit

AB 403 (Asm. Liz Ortega, D-20) — the Community Health Worker/Promotora/Representative Medi-Cal Services Transparency Act — would require DHCS, beginning July 1, 2027, to publish an annual analysis of CHW Medi-Cal benefit utilization, reimbursements…

NACHC June 2-3 Hill Days Target Dec 2026 CHCF Cliff, Registration Closes May 22

Event: May 15

NACHC's National Fly-In Days are June 2-3, 2026 in Washington, DC — replacing the April 25 in-district window that already closed. CA FQHC delegation registration closes Friday May 22, 2026 (2 days from this update).

DHCS CalAIM Renewal Plan Lets PATH ($1.85B) Sunset Dec 31, 2026, ECM/CS Capacity Funding NOT Proposed for Extension

Event: May 14

DHCS's CalAIM-renewal concept paper (per Aurrera Health's analysis) does NOT propose extending the PATH (Providing Access and Transforming Health) initiative beyond its scheduled December 31, 2026 sunset.

CalAIM 1115 Waiver Renewal Pending at CMS, ECM/Community Supports Funding on the Dec 31, 2026 Cliff

California's CalAIM 1115 waiver renewal application comment period closed March 12, 2026, with the existing waiver expiring December 31, 2026.

Bay Area Launches First AI-Powered Safety Net for Unhoused Patients, Funded by CalAIM

Event: Jan 28

Future Communities Institute, Akido Labs, Five Keys, and ReImagine Freedom launch an AI-powered street medicine program using ScopeAI — tablet-guided visits by CHWs with 92% diagnostic accuracy, remote physician review, and MAT within 4 hours.