The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Instead, it will be offset by funds in Medi-Cal ’s budget in future years.) Reduces Funding for CalRx Insulin Initiative. The 2022-23 budget provided $100  million one-time General Fund to manufacture a biosimilar insulin product.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - Since the passage of the 2022-23 budget, there have been 58 graduates of this program. In the Governor ’s proposed May Revision, approximately $3.4  million for these programs is proposed for reversion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Chapter  4 of 2016 (S B  3 , Leno) has gradually increased California ’s statewide minimum wage from $8 per hour to $16 per hour. Under S B  3 , the statewide minimum wage will continue to increase by up to 3.5  percent each year, depending on inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

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

Feb 5, 2025 - Similarly, in 2021 ‑2022, 22  percent of California adults had a mental illness. In 2022, fewer than 80  percent of those with a mental illness received mental health treatment. The shortage of mental health services is more severe for young adults, with 34  percent of individuals aged 18 through 25 having a mental illness in 2021 ‑2022 and less than two ‑thirds of young adults with mental illness receiving services  in 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - The reduction to the state ’s health plan tax revenue is not necessarily required by H.R. 1 in the short term. Rather, the lower revenues are due to the interaction of H.R.  1 ’s new proportionality rules with Proposition  35 ’s limit on taxing commercial enrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Under these formulas, a dru g ’s initial rebate is between 13  percent and 23  percent of its price, depending on the type of drug. Over time, the initial rebate increases if the drug ’s price rises faster than inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

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

Feb 10, 2023 - Under the administration ’s estimates, managed care ’s share of Medi ‑Cal spending grows from 44  percent of revised 2022 ‑23 spending to 49  percent of proposed spending in 2023 ‑24. Many factors drive managed care ’s relatively notable spending growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4675

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

Feb 27, 2024 - Last Year ’s Budget Included Delays and Fund Shifts to Workforce Package. To help address last year ’s budget problem, the 2023 ‑24 budget enacted two key budget solutions to HCAI ’s 2022 ‑23 workforce package.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2023-24 Budget: Health Workforce Budget Solutions

Feb 21, 2023 - Figure 1 Last Year ’s Health Workforce Package Spanned Several Departments General Fund Adopted in 2022 ‑23 Budget Package (In Millions) 2022 ‑23 Health Care Access and Information $259 $1,420 a Reflects Proposition 98 General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4691

The 2023-24 Budget: Assessment of Covered California Budget Solution

Feb 13, 2023 - Shortly after the state ’s 2022 ‑23 Budget Act was enacted, Congress approved legislation that extended the enhanced federal premium subsidies through 2025. Because the enhanced federal support reduces premium costs as a percent of income below the thresholds established in the California Premium Subsidy Program, the extension of the enhanced federal premium
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4681