The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Under these formulas, a dru g ’s initial rebate is between 13  percent and 23  percent of its price, depending on the type of drug. Over time, the initial rebate increases if the drug ’s price rises faster than inflation.
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 - This evaluation criteria may over or underestimate the current spending that would qualify under the Housing Interventions category in the G overnor ’s proposal. We are unable to estimate the current program expenditures that would qualify under the Population-Based Mental Health Substance Use Disorder Prevention category.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4782

The 2023-24 Budget: Whole Child Model Expansion

May 5, 2023 - For example, the Legislature could authorize the expansion of the Whole Child Model to the counties transitioning to a COHS model but defer action on the counties transitionin g to a Single-Plan model.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4767

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

Aug 17, 2023 - For example, researchers have estimated that the prevalence of mental illness and SUD is higher for people experiencin g unsheltered homelessness than sheltered homelessness. Available research also indicates that experiencing homelessness may lead some individuals to develop or exacerbate existing behavioral health issues due to the chronic stress of living without stable housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

Mental Health Services Act: Revenue Volatility and the Governor’s Proposal to Reduce Allowable County Reserves

Jul 13, 2023 - Alternatives exist that could strike a better balance between revenue stability and g rowth. While a carefully designed and robust MHSA reserve policy may be able to encourage consistent spending, funding MHSA services with a stable revenue stream would be a more straightforward way of providing consistent and successful MHSA services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4780

Federal Approval of a Reauthorized Managed Care Organization Tax Now Appears More Likely

Dec 21, 2018 - At that time, state policymakers were expecting revisions to federal rules on health care-related taxes that could have, in the years followin g 2018-19, prohibited a MCO tax similar in structure to the state ’s current MCO tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3915

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

Mar 11, 2020 - Swartz, Theodore G. Ganiats, Judith Fullerton, Jeffrey Ecker, and Uyensa Nguyen. 2003. “Outcomes, Safety, and Resource Utilization in a Collaborative Care Birth Center Program Compared With Traditional Physician ‑Based Perinatal Care. ”   American Journal of Public Health  93  (6): 999 ‑1006. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.93.6.999.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4197

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

Feb 22, 2017 - Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et  al ) considered issues concerning supplantation of funds related to Proposition  10 (1998), another voter ‑approved tobacco measure. In that case, the question before the court was whether the state could shift Proposition  10 revenues from First 5 Commissions to Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3573

The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Developmental Services Budget

Mar 4, 2016 - We recognize that meaningful financing reform will take many years to accomplish and by having a reform plan, the Legislature will be in a better position by which to evaluate progress in meeting reform g oals, make necessary adjustments, and ultimately ensure that what moves forward meets the requirements of the consumers served by the RC system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3382

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget

Feb 16, 2018 - In this report we provide a broad overview of the Governor's health and human services budget, highlighting major year-over-year changes. We then provide a more in-depth analysis of select programmatic areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757