The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The spending plan includes additional, one-time General Fund support in 2025-26 for wraparound services for individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) ($3.5  million) and increased wastewater surveillance to monitor disease outbreaks ($3.2  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

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

Oct 24, 2025 - These providers could have larger shortfalls in funding, as a greater share of services would come without full reimbursement (al so known as uncompensated care). The magnitude of this impact is uncertain as it depends on the number of people that lose Medi ‑Cal coverage, become uninsured, and still seek out services from safety net providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - Public health laboratory directors and public health microbiologists are als o regulated occupations and make up the core of public health laboratory staff. All laboratories must also report certain diseases of public health significance to state and local public health laboratories, a list of which is laid out in California regulations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2017-18 Budget: An Overview of the Governor's Proposition 56 Proposals

Feb 22, 2017 - Though Superior Court decisions generally are not binding precedent, one California Superior Court decision ( Children and Families Commission of Fresno County et al. v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et  al ) considered issues concerning supplantation of funds related to Proposition  10 (1998), another voter ‑approved tobacco measure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3573

Federal Approval of a Reauthorized Managed Care Organization Tax Now Appears More Likely

Dec 21, 2018 - The rules are in place to prevent states from imposing taxes that place too great a burden on feder al Medicaid funds. Therefore, to receive federal approval, a state must prove to the federal government that the burden of paying a health care-related tax does not fall too disproportionately on Medicaid as opposed to non-Medicaid services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3915

The 2023-24 Budget: Whole Child Model Expansion

May 5, 2023 - The proposal reduces this variation by continuing to administer the Whole Child Model in nearly al l COHS or Single-Plan model counties. (The proposal would continue to exclude Ventura County and its associated managed care plan from the Whole Child Model.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4767

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Major Behavioral Health Proposals

Feb 16, 2023 - Additionally, the demonstration includes a statewide incentive for counties to build a quality improvement program and funding for tools to help individuals connect to behavior al health services. Improve Statewide County Accountability for Medi ‑Cal Services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4689

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Health

Oct 22, 2021 - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Wraparound Services. The spending plan provides $15  million one time from the General Fund available over five years to support wraparound services for individuals with ALS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4465

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Medi-Cal Telehealth Proposal

May 13, 2021 - However, federal law allows states to waive certain federal Medicaid rules without having to forego feder al funding, provided states meet special conditions. For example, in response to the onset of the COVID ‑ 19 p andemic, the federal government waived certain Medicaid requirements to allow states to adopt temporary health care flexibilities in their Medicaid programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4430

Analysis of California’s Physician-Supervision Requirement for Certified Nurse Midwives

Mar 11, 2020 - Cross ‑Barnet, Caitlin, Ian Hill, Lisa Dubay, Brigette Courtot, Sarah Benatar, Bowen Garrett, Fred Blavin, et  al. 2018. “Health Management Associates ~AIR Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns Evaluation: Year  5  Project Synthesis Volume 1: Cross ‑Cutting Findings Prepared For. ” https://downloads.cms.gov/files/cmmi/strongstart ‑prenatal ‑finalevalrpt ‑v1.pdf.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4197