Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Badger, Emily, Ben Blatt, and Josh Katz (2023). “Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? ” The New York Times , December 11, 2023 . California Department of Public Health, Office of Policy and Planning (2024).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Cengiz, Doruk, Arindrajit Dube, Attila Lindner, and Ben Zipperer (2019). “The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs. ” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134(3). Clemens, Austin, Kavya Vaghul, John Schmitt, and Will McGrew (2019).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The state only recently began prefunding retiree health ben efits. Many local governments still do not prefund the benefit and, instead, make payments on a pay-as-you-go basis after an employee retires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Promoting Equity in the Parole Hearing Process

Jan 5, 2023 - In this report, we (1) provide background on California’s parole hearing process, (2) identify current aspects of the process that could disadvantage certain groups, and (3) recommend steps to promote greater equity in the parole hearing process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4658

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Electricity Generation

Jan 6, 2020 - The same study found that there was very little ben efit associated with reducing “congestion ” on most distribution circuits, but there was substantial value on 1 p ercent of circuits. The value is especially significant in areas where circuits are very close to needing a capacity upgrade.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4131

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - Miller, Keaton and Boyoung Seo (2019). “Tax Revenues When Substances Substitute: Marijuana, Alcohol, and Tobacco. ” Mimeo, University of Oregon. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

The 2019-20 May Revision: Update to Governor's 1991 Realignment Proposals

May 29, 2019 - It is our understanding that a non-health ben efit would be determined on a case-by-case basis by the Department of Social Services, in consultation with the California State Association of Counties.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4077

Pricing requirements for kidney dialysis providers. (Amendment No. 1). [Ballot]

Sep 29, 2017 - For Medi-Cal ben eficiaries with ESRD who are also eligible for Medicare —dual eligibles —Medicare is the primary payer for dialysis (after the three-month waiting period) and Medi-Cal is the secondary payer.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-014

Place a limit on gross charges for patient care services or items set by certain private hospitals. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2015 - Thus, by reducing hospital payments from private payers as described earlier, the measure would likely lead to (1) a lower actuarial assessment of the maximum amount of permissible capitation payments, (2) a corresponding decrease in fee-related capitation increases, and (3) reduced net ben efit under the fee program.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-101

Transfer Healthy Families Program to Department of Health Care Services

May 22, 2011 - In a fee-for-service system, a health care provider receives an individual payment from DHCS for each medical service delivered to a Medi-Cal ben eficiary. Beneficiaries generally may obtain services from any provider who has agreed to accept Medi-Cal payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/434