The 2019-20 Budget: Undoing California’s Outstanding Budgetary Deferrals

Mar 26, 2019 - While the cost to undo these actions is $1.7  billion, the benefit of deferring these payments again in the future would likely be somewhat higher than $1.7  billion, assuming employee compensation and pension costs continue to grow.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3988

The 2022-23 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 17, 2021 - Between 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23, we project the phase out will raise General Fund costs in Medi ‑Cal by $1.7 billion. Then, in 2023 ‑24, the full phase out will raise General Fund costs by another $800 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4474

The 2019-20 Budget: Proposition 56 Revenues: Reductions in Fixed Allocations

Feb 14, 2019 - For example, the Governor ’s Budget projects that the percentage allocation to Medi-Cal will decline by 1.7  percent in 2019 ‑20. Future Decisions Could Have Substantial Fiscal Effects Future Allocations Unknown . . .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3939

A Long-Term Outlook: Disability Among California’s Seniors

Nov 28, 2016 - Specifically, among the population of seniors projected to have a disability in 2060, about 1  million are projected to have one ADL limitation and about 1.7  million are projected to have two or more ADL limitations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3509

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

May 22, 2020 - The administration projects that the deteriorating economic environment caused by the COVID-19 crisis will cause a surge in the Medi-Cal caseload of nearly 1.7  million people, reflecting a 13  percent increase beyond what Medi-Cal caseload would have been absent the crisis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4245

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

Feb 5, 2025 - (This amount was originally the sum of $1.7  billion General Fund and $530  million in federal funding, but the federal funding was shifted to the General  Fund in December 2024, making the General Fund the sole funding source for BHCIP.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

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

Mar 10, 2022 - The Governor proposes $1.7  billion (across three years) for the Care Economy Workforce Development package. This package consists of a variety of distinct proposed augmentations across several state health and labor entities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Dec 7, 2023 - We estimate costs related to the expansion to be $2.9  billion General Fund in 2024-25, an increase of $1.7  billion over the 2023-24 partial-year level. Reduced Offset From MCO Tax. When the MCO tax package was approved in June 2023, it was assumed that the amount of funds used to offset General Fund spending in Medi-Cal will decrease from $3.5  billion in 2023-24 to $1.9  billion in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4820

Estimating the Cost of Expanding Full-Scope Medi-Cal Coverage to Undocumented Adults

May 10, 2018 - We then calculated the costs associated with emergency and pregnancy-related services already provided to restricted-scope Medi-Cal enrollees, which are estimated to be roughly $1.7  billion in 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3827

The 2023-24 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 16, 2022 - However, we project that about $1.7  billion of this increase will be offset by a reduction in overall Medi ‑Cal costs due to unwinding certain PHE ‑related policies. Most notably, once the continuous coverage requirement ends, caseload will decline over the following 14 months.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4649