The Uncertain Affordable Care Act Landscape: What It Means for California

Feb 17, 2017 - Reconstitute High‑Risk Pools Federal Funding for High ‑Risk Pools to Help Individuals With Costly Preexisting Medical Conditions Obtain Health Coverage. Another potential policy change with support from members of the new Republican congressional majority is the reconstitution of high ‑risk pools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3569

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - Exploring alternatives could help identify options that achieve savings more efficiently, apply more consistently across groups, and preserve access to high ‑priority services. Oversight and Development of Budget Solutions In this section, we first provide an update on the package of Medi ‑Cal budget solutions enacted in the 2025 ‑26 budget and assess the status of those enacted solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - To mitigate premium cost increases, the state could subsidize health insurers ’ costs for high ‑risk (high ‑cost) individuals. Alternatively, the state could take action to increase competition among insurers participating in Covered California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - The 2025 ‑26 Budget Act provided Medi ‑Cal $44.9  billion General Fund support, an all ‑time high for the program. Under our outlook, this level grows to $51.6  billion by the end of the outlook period in 2029 ‑30 (an increase of $6.7  billion).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - In response, the state developed the California COVID Reporting System (CCRS) to better handle the high volume of data as well as be interoperable with other COVID systems such as case investigation and contact tracing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

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

Oct 24, 2025 - The current limit —set at 6  percent of a taxed provider group ’s overall net patient revenue —is intended to prevent states from adopting very large taxes and imposing high costs on the federal government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - There is significant variability in the average annual growth rate by individual service (many individual services are captured in “Other ” in the figure), ranging from a low of 3  percent (employment services) to a high of 52  percent (social recreation).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - According to HCAI, many generic competitors have pursued more traditional high price, high rebate models, limiting their affordability to consumers. Also, HCAI states that it has heard of patients experiencing difficulty accessing price ‑capped insulin products.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

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

Mar 6, 2025 - For example, the very high utilization rates of Medically Tailored Meals in two counties, by two plans using the same provider, may indicate more demand for the benefit above what is currently being provided .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Funds for the third entity (Youth Mental Health Academy) will support mental health profession-related training, summer internships, and other outreach activi ties for a cohort of high school students in Los Angeles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075