The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health 100 100 a The spending plan assumes a portion of funds designated for this service ($88 million) cannot be allocated due to implementation issues and instead will be spent in 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

Governor’s May Revision Update: Health Insurance Affordability Proposals

May 15, 2019 - The administration estimates that the average subsidy for households with incomes between 400  percent and 600  percent of the FPL would be about $100 per month. . . . With Relatively Smaller Subsidies for Households Eligible for Federal Assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4047

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

Oct 24, 2025 - They would do so by increasing premiums, which in 2024 averaged over $600 per month. The increase in premiums (around 5  percent, on average) could have a variety of effects. For enrollees with employer ‑sponsored coverage, much of the cost of higher premiums would fall on employers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - Based on data from SAMHSA, DHCS estimated that over 600 facilities provide outpatient mental health services and nearly 800 facilities provide SUD services. DHCS also estimated that over 100 facilities provided inpatient care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - In our outlook, the latter effect results in higher General Fund costs to backfill the lost revenue in Medi ‑Cal ($600  million). What H.R. 1 Policies Will Affect the Private Hospital Fee? Proportionality Rule.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - All Other Spending Lower by $600 Million. Across the rest of the budget, the administration’s estimates of baseline spending (for example, for caseload growth, federal reimbursements, and statutory cost increases) are lower than ours by $600 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - DHCS also estimated that over 100 facilities provided inpatient care—ranging from psychiatric units within general acute care hospitals, freestanding psychiatric acute care hospitals, and psychiatric health facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2023-24 Budget: Assessment of Covered California Budget Solution

Feb 13, 2023 - In the event that the enhanced federal premium subsidies were extended, the budget package allowed for the funds to be used for an annual financial assistance program to further improve the affordability of coverage through Covered California for households with incomes at or below 600  percent of the federal poverty level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4681

The 2022-23 Budget: Health Care Access and Affordability

Feb 23, 2022 - Under the initial years of the ACA, the federal government provided funding for cost sharing reductions for insurers in Covered California to offer various “enhanced ” silver plan options to households with incomes between 100  percent and 250  percent of the FPL.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4560

The 2018-19 Budget: Governor's May Revision Medi-Cal Budget

May 14, 2018 - The absence of a detailed plan for how to fully spend between $600  million and $700  million in Proposition  56 funding leaves the Legislature with a notable opportunity to provide input into how this available funding is spent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3839