The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The SNF WQIP provides performance-based directed payments to facilities that satisfied metrics in quality of care, equity in healthcare outcomes, and workforce investments. This budget solution provides General Fund savings of $70  million in 2025-26 and $140  million in 2026-27 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2019-20 Budget: Using Proposition 56 Funding in Medi-Cal to Improve Access to Quality Care

Feb 22, 2019 - As the state does in FFS, Medi ‑Cal managed care plans are charged with managing the service utilization of their members to ensure that members are receiving only medically necessary care. Provide Care Coordination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3949

Considering Medi-Cal in the Midst of a Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape

Oct 24, 2025 - This is higher than the current commercial tax rate ($2.25 per ‑member, per ‑month) and lower than the current Medi ‑Cal tax rate ($274 per ‑member, per ‑month). Increased Costs for Health Care Consumers … Though health plans would pay the higher commercial tax, plans likely would try to pass on most or all of the cost of the tax onto their members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 13, 2024 - How would DDS encourage participation of family members that represent a wide range of consumer ages, from Early Start to elderly consumers? How would DDS educate laypeople about the developmental services system so that they are sufficiently empowered to provide meaningful feedback?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4837

The 2025-26 Budget: CalAIM Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports Implementation Update

Mar 6, 2025 - Services to Enable Members to Remain in a Home ‑Like Setting Day habilitation programs Programs provided to assist beneficiaries with developing skills necessary to reside in home ‑like settings, often provided by peer mentor ‑type caregivers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 24, 2022 - A person referred to the CARE Court is called a “respondent. ” A respondent can be referred to the CARE Court by certain qualified members of the community, including family members and members of the person ’s household, licensed behavioral health professionals, and first responders who have had repeated interactions with the respondent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4642

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Carve Out of Medi-Cal Pharmacy Services From Managed Care

Apr 5, 2019 - Medi ‑Cal managed care plans, and/or their contracted providers, currently receive data —often in real ‑ time —from pharmacies when their members fill their prescriptions. These data assist the managed care plan —particularly for relatively sick members enrolled in disease management programs —in coordinating their members ’ care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3997

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Despite these enrollment declines, because of the way AEP and community colleges are funded, adult education providers have not seen reductions in their funding. As a result, AEP consortium members likely have significant capacity next year to serve more students without the Governor ’s proposed augmentation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - As   Figure  2 shows, we estimate (based on historical federal data) that Medi ‑Cal pharmacy spending in 2023 ‑24 was nearly double the level in 2018 ‑19. Pharmacy spending continued growing even after the roll out of Medi ‑Cal Rx in 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2020-21 May Revision: Recommend Reduction to Medi-Cal Caseload Costs

May 22, 2020 - One large Medi-Cal population group comprises children, parents, and childless adults (the last of which became eligible for Medi-Cal in 2014 under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ’s optional expansion).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4245