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 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - In the paragraphs that follow, we provide our analysis that results in ou r estimate of at least 165,000 seniors being added due to eligibility expansions since 2020. (As a consequence of this estimate, it follows naturally that we estimate up to 60,000  seniors being added due to the effects of continuous coverage, the unwinding, and unwinding flexibilities, for a total increase of 225,000 seniors due to policy changes.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

Mental Health Services Act: Revenue Volatility and the Governor’s Proposal to Reduce Allowable County Reserves

Jul 13, 2023 - One way to measure the variability in a data series is average deviation (AD). AD summarizes —for a given time period —how many percentage points the data in a series deviate from the average growth rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4780

Recent Changes to State and County IHSS Wage and Benefit Costs

Dec 14, 2018 - Under the local wage supplement model, the cost of the first wage supplement is added to a county ’s IHSS MOE obligation, which is then adjusted annually by the MOE growth factor. However, the costs for subsequent local wage supplements are not added to a county ’s MOE obligation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3913

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Community Care Demonstration Project

Feb 19, 2021 - This proposal would provide $233. 2  m illion General Fund in 2021 ‑22, and $136. 4  m illion in 2022 ‑23 and ongoing, to establish a county felony IST demonstration project known as the Community Care Demonstration Project (CCDP).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4382

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The department stated that its budget projections for 2026 ‑27 do not incorporate any potential added costs due to the changes in H.R 1. Will the department be able to determine whether its costs increase in the future due to H.R. 1?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2021-22 Budget: Assessment of CalHEERS Dashboard

Mar 25, 2021 - The report also could describe how the fixes and functionalities are designed to address known Medi ‑Cal eligibility functionality issues in CalHEERS, and whether any new issues have been added to the dashboard because of the CalHEERS releases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4408

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

Mar 11, 2020 - “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

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 16, 2021 - The administration assumes this growth rate increases to 200,000 additional enrollees per month in January 2021, and that new enrollees will be added to the Medi ‑Cal caseload at that higher rate for the duration of 2021, with caseload peaking at more than 16  m illion in December 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4373

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

Aug 17, 2023 - All bond funding has been allocated as of August 2022. The bonds will be repaid over time using MH SA funds. NPLH has supported 247 projects and 7,852 housing units are anticipated. As of August 2022, 119 projects are under construction, 30 projects have been completed, and 498 units have units have been completed and are occupied.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790