The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The spending plan includes $25.9  million General Fund in 2024-25 and $7.7  million General Fund in 2025-26 and ongoing for infectious disease measures. The department received funding during the COVID-19 public health emergency to implement certain infection control protocols to limit the spread of COVID-19 and other communicable diseases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Health Budget and Policy

Oct 15, 2020 - In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the spending plan includes $7.7  million from the General Fund in 2020 ‑21 to provide temporary Medi-Cal behavioral health payment rate increases. The spending plan also makes two items of behavioral health spending in Medi-Cal —(1)  the extension of coverage for postpartum mental health and (2)  the expansion of screening and intervention to drugs other than alcohol —subject to potential suspension in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4281

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Health

Oct 22, 2021 - While the total CDPH budget averaged around $2.8  billion annually in each of the five years preceding the pandemic, it increased to $3.6  billion in 2019 ‑20 and further to $7.7  billion in the revised 2020 ‑21 budget before declining to $4.7  billion in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4465