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

Mar 6, 2025 - These complex and varying circumstantial eligibility requirements make it difficult to determine the total number of members potentially eligible f or Community Supports services statewide. Similar to ECM, members must agree to receive the benefit and participate in the program to access the  services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The budget also required DHCS to develop a transition plan f or certain CHDP services that would continue as stand-alone programs, such as the Health Care Program for Children in Foster Care (HCPCFC).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Continuum Infrastructure Funding Proposal

Feb 17, 2021 - Chapter   33 o f 2016 (S B  843 , Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) established the Community Services Infrastructure Grant Program, providing $65. 8  m illion General Fund one ‑time as part of the 2017 ‑ 18 b udget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4379

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Developmental Services Budget

Feb 25, 2019 - Chapter   351 o f 2013 (A B  10 , Alejo), and Chapter   4 o f 2016 (S B  3 , Leno), scheduled state minimum wage increases, beginning in 2014. With each new increase in the state minimum wage, only certain vendors are able to apply for rate adjustments to cover their associated increased costs (based on DDS ’ interpretation of this statute, discussed earlier).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3952

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Community Care Demonstration Project

Feb 19, 2021 - There are two ways in which participating counties could have funds left over after treating their felony ISTs: ( 1)  i f the actual number of felony ISTs in participating counties is below what DSH estimated or ( 2)  i f participating counties are able to reduce the rate —through their own actions —at which individuals are found to be IST in felony cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4382

Fiscal Outlook: In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)

Nov 15, 2017 - When the statewide minimum wage increases are f ully implemented in 2022, we estimate the costs of the minimum wage increases to total about $1.5  billion General Fund per year, increasing thereafter with growth in caseload, hours per consumer, and overtime costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3712

The 2020-21 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Developmental Services Budget

Feb 7, 2020 - Currently, required average caseload ratios at each RC for consumers ages  3 and older are 1: 62 i f they are enrolled in the Medicaid waiver or 1: 66 i f they are not enrolled in the Medicaid waiver.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4147

The 2019-20 Budget: Reorganization of the Division of Juvenile Justice

Apr 10, 2019 - Increased Flat Fee and Established Sliding Scale Fee —Chapter   6 o f 1996 (S B  681 , Hurtt).   Prior to Chapter  6, the state charged counties a flat monthly fee of $25 for each ward housed in state facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3998

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 13, 2019 - This increased funding is used to ( 1)  f urther supplement provider payments that already received increases in 2017 ‑18 and ( 2)  e xpand the number and kinds of Medi ‑Cal services that receive payment boosts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3935

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

Feb 16, 2021 - Furthermore, the Governor ’s budget recognizes additional savings in 2020 ‑ 21 o f around $ 230  m illion General Fund related to the decline in routine health care utilization due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID ‑1 9) p andemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4373