County Organized Managed Care Health Programs [Publication Details]

Feb 18, 2004 - The HPSM is one of the County Organized Health System (COHS)—a form of managed care—that contracts with Medi-Cal in eight counties. At least two of these plans reportedly face financial problems and others may in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1120

^[PDF] Supplemental Report of the 2016-17 Budget Act

(b) Tracking County Savings and Costs. A status update on the development and communication with county departments of a methodology to track county costs and savings related to CCR implementation. (c) Systems Changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2016/3493/2016-17-supplemental-report.pdf

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Child Care

For example, in Yolo County the cost of care in the university town of Davis was significantly higher than the cost in the remainder of the county. Aggregating to the county level in Yolo County would mean that reimbursement rates would not be high enough to access child care in Davis, and would likely be higher than necessary to access quality care in rest of the county.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/education/ed_10_anl06.html

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: County Block Grant Proposal

As noted above, the proposal lacks many details including (1) how much flexibility counties will have to restructure programs and move funding among programs in accordance with county priorities, (2) the allocation of the block grant funds among counties, and (3) how counties will achieve budgeted efficiencies so as to not further reduce benefits and services for immigrants.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/health_ss/hss_04_cc_county_blockgrant_anl04.htm

^[PDF] 2001-02 Budget Bill Conference Committee Version

In addition, an offset- ting reduction of $100 million in estate taxes was adopted to reflect the effect of recent federal law changes. § Expenditures. The Conference Committee's General Fund expenditure total is $79.1 billion, which is $587 million less than the May Revision.
https://lao.ca.gov/2001/budget_packets/062601_conference_floor.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1997 Budget Analysis: Trail Court Funding Chapter

This fails to provide counties with incen- tives to collect fines and penalties. The current system also creates tension in the state-county relationship because if counties do not collect fines at a statutorily determined level, they are required to make up the difference with county General Fund revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1997/part6e_trial_court_pi97.pdf

LAO 2003-04 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services, California Medical Assistance Program (4260)

Our analysis also indicates that the cost of Medi-Cal eligibility administration varies significantly from county to county, even for seemingly comparable counties. The average cost per eligible for the five counties with the largest Medi-Cal caseloads ranges from a high of $353 in San Diego County to a low of $181 in Los Angeles County.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2003/health_ss/hss_5_4260_anl03.htm

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Child Welfare Services (5180)

The fully loaded social worker cost per county ranges from $72,788 to $176,930. This range in cost per county partially reflects cost –of –living differences, but there are also significant differences in costs between bordering counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/health_ss/hss_anl08010.aspx

2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Criminal Justice Realignment [Publication Details]

Jan 27, 2009 - In particular, we propose that the state shift to counties programs for juvenile offenders and adults convicted of drug possession crimes. Under our realignment concept, counties would have broad authority to manage juvenile and drug–addicted adult offenders programs to achieve success.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1913

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - (COE LCFF is determined partially by ADA, as well as several other factors, including the number of school districts and students that are enrolled within the county in which they operate.) For funding purposes, the state credits school districts and COEs with their ADA in the current year, prior year, or rolling average of three prior years, whichever is higher.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839