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

Nov 28, 2016 - However, such projections are not available at this time. Our office will assess the feasibility of producing such projections in the future subject to available data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3509

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Over time, the initial rebate increases if the drug ’s price rises faster than inflation. Consequently, older drugs (which have tended to have price increases over time in excess of inflation) can come with much higher rebates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

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

Mar 6, 2025 - During the 18 months in which the asset limit was increased, but not eliminated, first‑time‑enrolling seniors in Medi‑Cal increased by about 60 percent. Once the asset test was fully eliminated, first‑time‑enrolling seniors were more than twice the level as prior to the policy change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - LDX would also help to automate a number of laboratory reporting functions to further reduce staff time spent on submitting and processing test results. CDPH is in the process of developing and t esting a number of components for the project, but a final time line for completion is unknown.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - Brand Name Drugs Tend to Cost Much More Than Generic Drugs … Companies that develop and patent new drugs have exclusive rights to sell their product for a limited period of time. Once this time expires, other drug makers can produce and sell their own generic versions of the drugs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2025-26 Budget: MCO Tax and Proposition 35

Feb 26, 2025 - Given the much more expansive scope of rate increases under Proposition  35, it is likely similar timing issues will occur, at least initially. To that end, the Legislature likely will want to work with DHCS, managed care plans, and providers to better track the timing of payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4992

The 2025-26 Budget: CalAIM Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports Implementation Update

Mar 6, 2025 - ECM Recipients MCPs Phased in ECM to Different POFs Over Time. As shown in Figure  2 , MCPs have been required to provide the ECM benefit to members based on a list of eligible POF categories that have grown over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - The surge also aligns with the implementation of additional federal flexibilities meant to limit the impacts of eligibility redeterminations being conducted by counties for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - Many of these programs were supported by one-time funds over a multiyear period. As a budget solution, the spending plan notably reduces General Fund support for these initiatives. As Figure  6 shows, these reductions primarily affect one-time spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

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

Jan 13, 2025 - In other words, we are not describing the budget condition as having a surplus or a deficit at this time. These concepts are inherently tools of communication, not accounting, and are ultimately somewhat subjective.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951