The 2024-25 Budget: The MCO Tax Package at May Revision

May 22, 2024 - It would cost $115  million annually in MCO tax funds ($230  million annually total funds). The administration has not provided further detail on how the proposed payment would work. Backfills Declining Proposition  56 Funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4905

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - This year ’s health trailer bill continuously appropriates $115  million General Fund ($230  million total funds) for a new Medi-Cal directed payment to children ’s hospitals. The legislation tasks DHCS with determining the methodologies and parameters for the new payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

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

Feb 5, 2025 - The administration is working to allocate the bond funding quickly, with plans to aw ard up to $3.3  billion in May 2025 and a stated commitment to award all funding by 2026. This leaves a brief window in which the Legislature can conduct oversight of the program and influence the administration ’s program administration decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Health Care Access and Information

Feb 27, 2024 - First, it delayed $115  million community health worker funds in the Workforce for a Health California for All initiative from 2023 ‑24 to 2024 ‑25. Second, it shifted $196  million in 2023 ‑24 for several behavioral health initiatives from the General Fund to the Mental Health Services Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: The Overarching Issues

Feb 9, 2021 - For example, programs such as Whole Person Care and the Dental Transformation Initiative, currently authorized under th e 1 115 waiver and funded with a mix of federal and non ‑General Fund state and local funds, expire at the end of 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4357

The 2020-21 Budget: Re-Envisioning Medi-Cal—The CalAIM Proposal

Feb 28, 2020 - The Governor ’s proposal includes $28. 8  m illion from the General Fund ($57. 5  m illion total funds) in 2020 ‑21 and $57. 5  m illion from the General Fund ($ 115  m illion total funds) in 2021 ‑22 and ongoing to pay for services that are currently being provided through current programs like Whole Person Care and Health Homes that now would be provided under ILOS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4185