The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - According to HCAI, the partnership will produce three generic insulin products, with insulin glargine (also known by the brand name Lantus) most likely to be launched first. HCAI Anticipates Substantial Commercial Savings From Generic Product.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - As the nearby figure shows, there are three key GLP ‑1 agonists, each with different brand names for treating diabetes and obesity. Within the Medi ‑Cal program, semaglutide has comprised most of the utilization of GLP ‑1 agonists, mostly for Ozempic (which primarily treats diabetes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Restructuring of the MHSA Funding Categories and Impacts on County Spending

Jul 13, 2023 - To create our estimate, we used program names across counties to determine if they might qualify as housing interventions. This evaluation criteria may over or underestimate the current spending that would qualify under the Housing Interventions category in the G overnor ’s proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4782

Mental Health Services Act: Impact of Governor's Proposal on Funding for Children and Youth

Aug 10, 2023 - However, to estimate the amount of Community Services and Supports (CSS) and Innovation expenditur es that go towards children and youth services, we used program names across counties to determine if they might qualify as children and youth services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4786

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Health Care Access and Information

Feb 27, 2024 - Chapter  143 of 2021 (AB  133, Committee on Budget) changed the department ’s name to HCAI and expanded its mission and operations in several ways. For example, the legislation expanded the department ’s scope to include health care affordability issues, and also reorganized and expanded the department ’s pre-existing activities around health care workforce planning and development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of CalAIM Financing Issues

Feb 16, 2021 - This reduction reflects the expiration of certain limited ‑term spending components, namely, the managed care plan incentive payments related to ECM and ILOS. Figure  2 summarizes the Governor ’s proposed CalAIM funding plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4374

The 2019-20 Budget: Assessing the Governor’s Primary Care Physician Residency Proposals

May 9, 2019 - The first initiative is named after its legislative authors, Song ‑Brown, and is administered by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD). The second initiative is authorized by Proposition  56 and is administered by the University of California (UC).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4034

The 2017-18 Budget: An Overview of the Governor's Proposition 56 Proposals

Feb 22, 2017 - As noted in Figure  2, Proposition  56 directs that its revenues “shall not be used to supplant existing state general funds for these same purposes, ” namely, state Medi ‑Cal payments. The Governor ’s proposal takes a literal view of this text.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3573

The 2017-18 Budget: Overview of the Governor's May Revision Medi-Cal Budget Proposal

May 17, 2017 - The Governor ’s January budget proposal included additional NQIs —namely, parents and caretaker relatives —in the transition. (For further background on issues related to the NQI proposal, refer to our report, The 2017‑18 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget .)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3674

Analysis of California’s Physician-Supervision Requirement for Certified Nurse Midwives

Mar 11, 2020 - Such payments can reimburse physicians for the time spent on supervision activities and can also serve to compensate physicians for any potential risk incurred should they be named in a medical malpractice suit against a nurse ‑midwife supervisee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4197