The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - As shown in Figure 11, this growth in first‑time‑enrolling Medi‑Cal enrollees is unique to seniors. From the third quarter of 2022 through the fourth quarter of 2024, we estimate that about 115,000 first‑time‑enrolling seniors enrolled in Medi‑Cal over the historical average new enrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

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

Mar 6, 2025 - The Governor ’s 2025 ‑26 budget proposes ECM spending at $956  million (total funds) and Community Supports spending at $231  million (total funds), a $67  million (7.5  percent) and $11  million (5  percent) increase over revised 2024 ‑25 levels, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

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

Feb 5, 2025 - This funding, however, has been concentrated within 11 out of 30 small counties. The remaining 19 small counties did not receive any awards in these rounds. In addition, there has been mixed success in siting behavioral health infrastructure in counti es where it did not exist prior to BHCIP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - These solutions yielded General Fund savings of $11  billion through 2025 ‑26. The Governor ’s budget reduces this amount by $1.3  billion through 2025 ‑26. The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2024-25 Budget: Future of Public Health Budget Solution

May 21, 2024 - The proposal also reverts $52.4  million in 2023 ‑24 from unspent funds, with $41.4  million being reverted from state operations and $11  million being reverted from local assistance. Assessment Elimination of Future of Public Health Funding Would Result in Loss of Core Services, Affecting Efforts to Mitigate Negative Trends in Health Outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4904

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget [Publication Details]

Jan 10, 2021 - Correction 1/11/21: Totals for immediate and early action proposals have been corrected. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4309

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - The temporary rate increase ended May 11, 2023. The spending plan includes $836,000 General Fund ($1.7  million total funds) to restore this rate increase for pediatric subacute facilities effective January 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

California Fiscal Impact of Overturning the ACA [Publication Details]

Oct 21, 2020 - Senate Health Committee Updated 11/13/2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4287

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Dec 7, 2023 - The national PHE for COVID-19 was in effect from early 2020 through May 11, 2023. Generally during this time, a number of temporary policy and financing rule changes were put in place that significantly impacted General Fund spending on Medi-Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4820

COVID-19: American Rescue Plan’s Major Health-Related Funding Provisions [Publication Details]

May 6, 2021 - COVID-19: American Rescue Plan’s Major Health-Related Funding Provisions [Publication Details] COVID-19: American Rescue Plan’s Major Health-Related Funding Provisions Format: HTML Description: On March 11, 2021, the President signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP Act)—a $1.9 trillion coronavirus disease 2019 relief package.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4425