California Healthcare Foundation (San Francisco, CA)

The California Health Care Foundation is a multi-billion dollar foundation created in 1997 as a result of the conversion of Blue Cross of California to for-profit status. The Pacific Health Policy Group (PHPG) has provided technical assistance to the foundation in the development of a grant program to support innovative managed care and related transitional models for the disabled and children with special health care needs.  

In 1999, the Foundation again retained PHPG to conduct a study on the implementation of the data transmission and privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).