The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Recent State Investments in Care Economy Workforce In Recent Years, State Has Made Substantial Investments for Care Economy Workforce Development. Figure  1 shows recent major state funding for care economy workforce development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on Home- and Community- Based Services Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2022 - States Required to Spend an Amount of State Funding Equivalent to the Increased FMAP Funding on New HCBS Expansions and Enhancements. The state ’s decision to claim increased FMAP funding reduces its share of cost for existing HCBS services by an equal amount (in California ’s case, $3  billion).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4524

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Major Behavioral Health Proposals

Mar 3, 2022 - Felony ISTs typically are referred by a state trial court to DSH to receive treatment. The state treats the majority of felony ISTs in state hospitals; however, many individuals wait in county jails for many months given the limited number of DSH beds, which has resulted in a waitlist of felony ISTs who have not been admitted to DSH.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4569

The 2022-23 Budget: Public Health Foundational Support

Feb 16, 2022 - At a higher level, it also does not address whether there are enough local public health labs around the state or how well the existing local public health labs and the state lab work collaboratively as a network.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4544

The 2022-23 Budget: Health Care Access and Affordability

Feb 23, 2022 - State Introduced Individual Mandate Penalty and Established Three ‑Year Premium Subsidy Program. In 2019 ‑20, the Legislature enacted a state individual mandate penalty as well as a three ‑year state premium subsidy program intended to supplement federal subsidies through Covered California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4560

The 2022-23 Budget: California Spending Plan Series [Publication Details]

Sep 29, 2022 - Each year, our office publishes California Spending Plan, a series of publications that summarize the annual state budget. The Overview of the California Spending Plan is presented here along with short online posts that focus on major areas and features of the 2022-23 budget package. As more of these posts become available, we will add them below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4629

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 9, 2022 - Background Medi ‑Cal Is the State ’s Medicaid Program. Medi ‑Cal provides health care coverage to over 14 million Californians with low incomes. As a joint state ‑federal program, costs are shared between the federal and state as well as local governments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4522

The 2022-23 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 29, 2022 - California ’s service providers must be in compliance with the final HCBS rule for the state to draw down Medicaid funding for HCBS  services. State Funds Grants to Assist Providers in Reaching Compliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4577

Enhancing Federal Financial Participation for Consumers Served by the Department of Developmental Services

Nov 9, 2021 - Consequently, the state cannot draw down federal Medicaid funds to help pay for DDS services provided to these consumers —the state (through the General Fund) currently pays 100  p ercent of the cost.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4471

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on Home- and Community- Based Services Spending Plan [Publication Details]

Feb 10, 2022 - This post provides an update on the state's home- and community-based services spending plan, which was conditionally approved by the federal government in January 2022. We describe the quarterly updates the state will need to provide the federal government and ways to ensure legislative oversight over implementation of HCBS spending plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4524