The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - The federal share of cost in each state generally is determined by a formula, with the share in California at 50 percent. Each state’s specific federal share (in California’s case, 50 percent) also applies to gross pharmacy costs and drug rebate savings, with some exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - As Figure  5 shows, however, as measured by the consumer price index, prescription drug cost inflation has slowed over the past 50 years. While drug inflation has tended to exceed overall inflation, this trend reversed in the last few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

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

Mar 6, 2025 - From July 2022 through September 2024, the caseload in the expansion to individuals age 50 and older —a group that is notably not limited to those age 65 and over —increased by about 120,000  individuals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

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

Feb 5, 2025 - From the three ‑year period of 2008 ‑2010 to three ‑year period of 2017 ‑2019, the share of California adults with SMI increased by around 50  percent, with the share of California young adults with SMI nearly doubling over the period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The spending plan eliminates General Find for grants to the California Community Colleges ($30  million in 2023-24 and $70  million in 2024-25) and to the California State University and University of California ($50  million in 2024-25).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

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

Jul 13, 2023 - While not required by MHSA, state regulations currently require counties to use 50  percent of CSS funding for FSPs. FSPs provide mental health and wraparound services —such as housing and employment support —for individuals with the greatest mental health needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4782

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Feb 14, 2024 - Ground emergency medical transportation 50 130 Increase rates to around 50 percent to 60 percent of Medicare and adopt Medicare payment structure. Clinics 50 125 b Expand and convert existing supplemental payment program for non ‑hospital 340B providers into utilization and performance ‑based managed care directed payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4838

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

Feb 27, 2024 - This downward revision is the result of an assumed $50  million in deferred spending for the CalRx initiative to 2025 ‑26. The initiative supports a public-private partnership to develop and manufacture a biosimilar insulin product.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Mental Health Workforce Proposal

May 9, 2019 - Moreover, over this same time period, the number of mental health professionals has increased by about 50  p ercent. Figure  4 displays these trends for mental health professionals compared to all occupations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4031

The 2019-20 May Revision: Analysis of the Governor’s January and May Mental Health Workforce Proposals

May 16, 2019 - As with the $50  million in General Fund proposed in January, the $100  million in funding would be available for expenditure through 2025 ‑26. Mixed Evidence of Statewide Mental Health Workforce Shortages . . .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4049