The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Medi-Cal Student Services Funding Proposal [Publication Details]

Feb 17, 2021 - This post analyzes the Governor’s proposal in the Department of Health Care Services to provide $200 million General Fund ($400 million total funds) one time to provide incentive payments to Medi-Cal managed care plans to increase the number of students receiving behavioral health services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4377

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 16, 2021 - School ‑Based Behavioral Health. To increase capacity to provide student behavioral health services, the Governor proposes $ 200  m illion General Fund ($ 400  m illion total funds) one ‑time available for three years to provide incentive payments to Medi ‑Cal managed care plans to establish partnerships with schools and county behavioral health departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4373

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of CalAIM Financing Issues

Feb 16, 2021 - Figure 2 Proposed CalAIM Funding —Governor ’s 2021 ‑22 Budget (In Millions) Benefit and population delivery system transitions b 403 a To assist with the establishment of enhanced care management and in lieu of services. b Not included in last year ’s proposal. c While the 2024 ‑25 costs are as listed, ongoing costs are proposed to be $20 million total funds, $10 million General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4374

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: The Overarching Issues

Feb 9, 2021 - The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: The Overarching Issues a To assist with the establishment of enhanced care management and in lieu of services. b Not included in last year ’s proposal. c While the 2024 ‑25 costs are as listed, ongoing costs are proposed to be $20 million total funds, $10 million General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4357

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - When the state created the requirement for supplemental payments, it had anticipated a steep drop in the minimum guarantee that would affect school and community college funding for several years. The supplemental payments were intended to accelerate the recovery from this drop, with payments growing from $2.3  billion in 2021 ‑22 to more than $6  billion by 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2021-22 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook [Publication Details]

Nov 18, 2020 - In this web post, we describe the major factors that we expect to drive changes in General Fund spending in Medi‑Cal over the near term—in 2020‑21 and 2021‑22—and over the longer term through 2024‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4299

The 2021-22 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 18, 2020 - This results in significant year ‑over ‑year General Fund savings from 2022 ‑ 23 t o 2024 ‑25. Overall, we project caseload will decline by 5  p ercent annually from a high of 14. 8  m illion in 2021 ‑ 22 t o 12. 6  m illion in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4299

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - The administration notified the JLBC of two DREOA of transfers related to COVID-19: $1.3  billion on March  25 and $1.8  billion on May 21. These funds are now available for emergency response activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Health Budget and Policy [Publication Details]

Oct 15, 2020 - The year-over-year net increase in General Fund spending is largely due to the projected COVID-19-related increase in the Medi-Cal caseload. The post describes major health-related actions (both policy actions and various budget adjustments) adopted by the Legislature as part of its 2020-21 spending plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4281

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Health Budget and Policy

Oct 15, 2020 - This includes (1) $26.7  million to repair three deteriorating roofs at Napa, Metropolitan, and Patton State Hospitals and (2) $5.3  million (growing to $15.4  million by 2024 ‑25) to mitigate ligature risk at state hospital facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4281