The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget

Feb 16, 2018 - The state minimum wage is statutorily scheduled to increase each year until it reaches $ 15 —in 2022 for the larger businesses and in 2023 for the smaller businesses. Statutory Policy Guides Rate Adjustments to DDS Service Providers When the Minimum Wage Increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Developmental Services Budget

Feb 24, 2017 - New Methods for Estimating DC Costs and RC Rent Costs an Improvement. The new method that DDS is using to estimate DC costs appears to provide a more accurate assessment of the particular needs and associated costs at each DC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3581

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Developmental Services Budget

Feb 25, 2019 - DC Closures DCs on Track to Close in 2019. DDS successfully completed the closure of Sonoma DC in December 2018 and expects to have moved the last residents from Fairview DC and the general treatment area of Porterville DC by the end of 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3952

A Long-Term Outlook: Disability Among California’s Seniors

Nov 28, 2016 - Seniors turning 65 between 2015 and 2019 who have greater than a high school education spend fewer years on average with one or more ADL limitations than seniors with a high school degree or GED credential and seniors with less than a high school education (4.2 years vs. 4.8 years and 5.8  years, respectively).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3509

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Dec 7, 2023 - On the other hand, the continuous coverage requirement expired at the end of March  2023. This change restarted monthly county eligibility redeterminations beginning April 1, 2023, with the first enrollment terminations beginning July 1, 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4820

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - Most of the delays shift funding from 2022-23 to 2023-24. As an exception, the budget delays most of the planned support in 2023-24 for a community health workers initiative into the following two years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 10, 2023 - Instead, as a result of the federal legislation, the enhanced federal funding will ramp down over the course of calendar year 2023. Beginning in April 2023, the enhanced rate for most services will drop from 6.2  percentage points to 5  percentage points, then to 2.5  percentage points by July  2023, 1.5  percentage points by October 2023, and will be fully eliminated by January 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4675

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

Feb 27, 2024 - To help address last year ’s budget problem, the 2023 ‑24 budget enacted two key budget solutions to HCAI ’s 2022 ‑23 workforce package. 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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The spending plan reduces funding for CYBHI by a total of $197  million across 2023-24 and 2024-25. Specifically, CYBHI is reduced as follows: School-Linked Health Partnerships and Grants ($150  Million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2023-24 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 16, 2022 - Budget Year (2023 ‑24) Outlook Anticipates Overall Spending Decline in 2023 ‑24. We project Medi ‑Cal General Fund spending to be $34.2  billion in 2023 ‑ 24 —a $1.3  billion decline from our revised 2022 ‑23 estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4649