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

Mar 6, 2025 - Estimate About Two ‑Thirds of Senior Growth Due to Eligibility Expansions Is From Asset Test Elimination. As discussed above, the elimination of a Medi ‑Cal share of cost for certain seniors provides about 30,000 of the 165,000 estimated senior growth due to eligibility expansions, leaving 135,000 of the growth to allocate between two eligibility expansions: (1)  the older adult expansion and (2)  the asset test elimination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

Overview of Proposition 1 and Assessment of Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program [Publication Details]

Apr 7, 2025 - Overview of Proposition 1 and Assessment of Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5027

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

Oct 24, 2025 - This is because states could adopt approaches that still met federal mathematical tests that measured disproportionality. Under H.R.  1, states are now prohibited from using some of these approaches, effective July 2025.
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 - (Behavioral health infrastructure includes inpatient and outpatient facilities at which individuals receive treatment for mental illness and/or substance use disorders [SUD], typically for a period of up to one day to several months.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - Figure  1 describes, at a high level, the role of the different types of laboratories that provide testing services for the state ’s public health system. Local Public Health Laboratories Are Responsible for Majority of Public Health Testing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - Other solutions included partially restoring the asset test for seniors and persons with disabilities, ending coverage of anti ‑obesity drugs, and ending supplemental payments for dental services in Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

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

Nov 28, 2016 - For example, Medicare covers up to 100 days of long –term care in a SNF for individuals receiving skilled care, such as physical therapy, following a recent hospital stay of at least three days. Medi –Cal Covers a Broader Range of LTSS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3509

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Moreover, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of the asset test elimination from other factors occurring at the same time, such as the unwinding of continuous coverage and approved federal flexibilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

Considering Medi-Cal in the Midst of a Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape [Publication Details]

Oct 24, 2025 - We describe the changing fiscal and policy landscape for Medi-Cal resulting from Congressional enactment of H.R. 1 and the key issues facing the Legislature.  See our companion infographic
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5083

COVID-19: Federal Health-Related Response

Mar 23, 2020 - Approved: Removal of 100-Day Supply Limit on Prescription Drugs. Pharmacies are limited to dispensing up to a 100-day supply of prescription drugs to Medi-Cal beneficiaries. DHCS requested to waive this limit and thereby allow beneficiaries to obtain larger supplies of prescription drugs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4209