Climate Change Impacts Across California - Health

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, low ‑income households have less money to purchase and operate air conditioning units during extreme heat events, air filters to moderate wildfire smoke, or back ‑up electricity generators to provide electricity during PSPS events.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4580

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

May 13, 2021 - Non ‑Real ‑Time Exchange. We define non ‑real ‑time exchange as the delivery of health information through an electronic messaging system (such as secure email). Services delivered through non ‑real ‑time exchange are often referred to as “asynchronous ” or “store and forward ” telehealth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4430

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

Mar 26, 2019 - Depositing Money Into Reserves Generates Interest Payments. Money held in the state ’s cash reserves is not idle. The State Treasurer ’s Office (STO) invests state funds, including reserves, in the Pooled Money Investment Account (PMIA), generating an investment return.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3988

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - Bonds are a way that the state (as well as local governments and private companies) borrows money. The state sells bonds to investors to receive “up-front ” funding for projects and then repays investors, with interest, over a period of time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

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

Jan 13, 2025 - 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: The MCO Tax Package at May Revision

May 22, 2024 - Some money would remain in the reserve after this version of the MCO tax ends in 2026 to help sustain the augmentations in the future. This year ’s early action shifted $3.1  billion out of the reserve to help address the budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4905

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

Oct 24, 2025 - Most hospitals get more money back from this arrangement than they pay in fees. That said, some hospitals, particularly those that primarily provide care to non ‑Medi ‑Cal patients, incur net costs as a result of the fee program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

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

Feb 5, 2025 - These conditions include providing matching funds or real property, supplementing and not supplanting existing funds for facility expansion, certain reporting requirements, and a commitment to operate services in the financed facility for the intend ed purpose for at least 30 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - Within the physical distancing category, most money has been spent on schools and community colleges to help local educational agencies shift to remote learning. The state also has spent money on housing and homelessness to facilitate physical distancing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Pursuant to state law, most of the decline in revenue will affect supplemental payments to private hospitals, with only a portion (around 25  percent) resulting in less money for existing Medi ‑Cal costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092