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

Mar 6, 2025 - About 115,000 of Senior Growth Due to Policy Changes Are First ‑Time Medi ‑Cal Enrollees as a Result of Eligibility Expansions Since the Second Half of 2022. Figure  10 shows the average number of Medi ‑Cal enrollees over 65 who are enrolled in Medi ‑Cal for the first time in their lives in four selected time periods —before the continuous coverage period, during
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - By participating in these networks, certain public health laboratories may receive supplemental funding or supplies as well as be among the first laboratories to implement new testing methodologies for emerging diseases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Reinstates an Asset Test. The spending plan reinstates the verification of assets, commonly referred to as an asset test, to determine Medi-Cal eligibility for seniors and persons with disabilities. Under the spending plan, seniors and persons with disabilities will need to verify that their countable assets do not exceed $130,000 per individual and $195,000 per couple.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

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

Nov 28, 2016 - California ’s seniors in this cohort are also projected to spend a larger share of life after turning 65 with two or more ADL limitations than seniors nationally (11.9  percent vs. 9.6  percent). Back to the Top California–Specific Projections Are a Necessary First Step in LTSS System Planning This analysis demonstrates the need for California –specific
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3509

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - The 2021 bu dget package raised the asset limit to $130,000 for individuals and $195,000 for couples effective July 2022, and fully eliminated the asset test as of January 1, 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

COVID-19: Federal Health-Related Response

Mar 23, 2020 - Private and Public Insurance Required to Cover Testing Without Cost Sharing. First, FFCRA requires all private health insurers to cover the cost of COVID-19 testing without any required cost sharing, such as deductibles or copayments, on the part of the individual enrolled in coverage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4209

COVID-19: American Rescue Plan’s Major Health-Related Funding Provisions

May 6, 2021 - However, for Californians with incomes above 400  percent of the federal poverty level, the state subsidy program for the first time placed a limit on the percentage of income individuals would have to spend on premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4425

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - First, the state is conducting a number of activities to reduce the transmission and spread of COVID-19 among Californians. For example, this includes funding for testing and contact tracing, disease monitoring, purchasing and distributing personal protective equipment (PPE) like masks, and disseminating information to the public about the virus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - Oversight and Development of Budget Solutions In this section, we first provide an update on the package of Medi ‑Cal budget solutions enacted in the 2025 ‑26 budget and assess the status of those enacted solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2012-13 Budget: Integrating Care for Seniors and Persons With Disabilities [Publication Details]

Feb 17, 2012 - We also encourage the consideration of other ways to test the integration of benefits for SPDs. Reports by Policy Area
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