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

Feb 16, 2018 - The units at both DCs were recently recertified for 2018 and will thus continue to receive federal funding through December 2018. (The Governor ’s budget assumes the ICF/DD units will be recertified in 2019 and federal funding will continue for the balance of 2018 ‑19.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Developmental Services Budget

Feb 24, 2017 - Increase of $77  million ($44  million General Fund) to reflect full ‑year implementation of a January 1, 2017 state minimum wage increase (to $10.50 per hour) and half ‑year implementation of a scheduled January  1, 2018 state minimum wage increase (to $11  per hour).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3581

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - In 2024-25, approximately 60  percent of CLS ’s budget of $77  million (total funds) is supported by the General Fund, with the balance coming from a mix of federal funds and state special funds. Local public health laboratories receive a mix of 1991 realignment funding, local assistance from CDPH, federal funding, and other county funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 15, 2023 - The state has allocated $11  million annually since 2016 ‑17 ($77  million to date) for “equity grants ” to help close disparities in spending. As part of the 2021 ‑22 spending plan, the state also required DDS to contract with a research entity to evaluate the effectiveness of these grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4683

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The database, created as part of the 2018-19 budget, includes data from most health care payors in California (including private insurance, Medi-Cal, and Medicare) around health care utilization and costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Governor's 340B Medi-Cal Proposal

Mar 21, 2018 - The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Governor's 340B Medi-Cal Proposal Summary This budget report analyzes the Governor ’s 2018 ‑ 19 b udget proposal to eliminate the use of the 340B Drug Pricing Program in Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3790

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - As   Figure  5 shows, at the start of 2018, antipsychotics (drugs that treat certain mental health conditions) and insulin (drugs that help regulate blood sugar for diabetics) represented around one ‑quarter of gross spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

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

Feb 5, 2025 - The share of Californians aged 12 and over having an SUD in the past year rose nearly 10  percent between 2015 ‑2017 and 2018 ‑2019. The consequences of these behavioral health challenges have also grown more severe.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

Fiscal Outlook: Medi-Cal

Nov 14, 2018 - Outlook Assumes Reduced Repayments in 2018-19 and 2019-20. Our outlook assumes the state repayments of disputed federal funding will be about $400  million less in 2018-19 than assumed in the 2018-19 Budget Act because of new information suggesting the amount of federal funding in dispute is less than previously thought.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3898

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

May 14, 2018 - For background on the use of Proposition  56 funding in Medi-Cal, please refer to our February 2018 report: The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget . Governor ’s January 2018-19 Budget Proposed Spending Maximum Amount Authorized in 2017-18 Budget Agreement on Provider Payment Increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3839