The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The spending plan includes General Fund reductions of $4  million in 2024-25, $161  million in 2025-25, $329  million in 2026-27, and $157  million in 2027-28 and ongoing to various programs meant to address the IST waitlist.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - The second is an increase in the frequency of required eligibility determinations from every 12 months to every 6 months. Both changes likely will notably reduce the number of childless adults enrolled in Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Chapter  4 of 2016 (S B  3 , Leno) has gradually increased California ’s statewide minimum wage from $8 per hour to $16 per hour. Under S B  3 , the statewide minimum wage will continue to increase by up to 3.5  percent each year, depending on inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2025-26 Budget: MCO Tax and Proposition 35

Feb 26, 2025 - Figure 6 Legislature Faces Two Key Sets of Oversight Issues Implementation of Augmentations When will the department begin implementing augmentations? How will the department structure the augmentations?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4992

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - Figure  6 shows the cumulative percentage change for each category of Medi ‑Cal enrollees from April 2020 (when the continuous coverage period began) through December 2024 (a year and a half after the beginning of the unwinding of the continuous coverage requirement).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - The spending plan includes about $6  million —$216,000 General Fund, $4  million federal funds, and $2  million in county and other funds —for DHCS in 2023-24 to begin implementing the proposed BH-CONNECT Medi-Cal demonstration waiver.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

Considering Medi-Cal in the Midst of a Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape

Oct 24, 2025 - The current limit —set at 6  percent of a taxed provider group ’s overall net patient revenue —is intended to prevent states from adopting very large taxes and imposing high costs on the federal government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - As Figure  4 shows, the top 30 drugs in terms of spending (out of about 950 drug categories) represented less than 20  percent of all prescriptions (left column) but more than 50  percent of gross spending (right column).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2025-26 Budget: CalAIM Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports Implementation Update

Mar 6, 2025 - Both IPP and PATH —incentives funding that is also shown on Figure  4 in addition to General Fund ECM and Community Supports spending —have fixed, limited ‑term funding availability that ends in 2025 ‑26 and 2026 ‑27, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - As Figure  6 shows, these reductions primarily affect one-time spending. Figure 6 General Fund Spending on HCAI Workforce Programs Appropriations (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930