The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The 2023-24 budget delayed its end to 2024-25. Withdrawing the scheduled end of the deferral in 2024-25, thereby allowing it to continue, provides $5 33  million one-time General Fund savings in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - Reflecting this change, health-related trailer bill legislation (Chapter  42 of 2023 [AB  118, Committee on Budget]) expands the Whole Child Model to 12 of these counties, with the change scheduled to begin January 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Dec 7, 2023 - This expansion is scheduled to begin no later than January 1, 2024, half way through the 2023-24 fiscal year. We estimate costs related to the expansion to be $2.9  billion General Fund in 2024-25, an increase of $1.7  billion over the 2023-24 partial-year level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4820

The 2025-26 Budget: MCO Tax and Proposition 35

Feb 26, 2025 - Enacted by the Legislature in June 2023 and scheduled to begin in January 2024, health plans required considerable time and effort to incorporate the new rates into their contracts. As a result, DHCS ultimately gave plans until the end of 2024, requiring retroactive provider payments in 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4992

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

Feb 10, 2023 - …But Reduce General Fund Costs in 2023 ‑24. The ramp down schedule for the enhanced federal funding will result in six additional months of enhanced federal funding in 2023 ‑24 than assumed by the administration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4675

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Feb 14, 2024 - The  2023 ‑24 budget delayed its end to 2024 ‑25. The Governor ’s budget assumes that withdrawing the scheduled end of the deferral in 2024 ‑25, thereby allowing it to continue, provides $533  million one ‑time General Fund savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4838

The 2023-24 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 16, 2022 - The current MCO tax has been in place since January 2020 and is scheduled under current law to end in December 2022. We project the end of this tax will increase General Fund spending by $1.5 billion in 2023‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4649

The 2020-21 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2019 - The reauthorized MCO tax is scheduled to expire halfway through the 2022 ‑23 fiscal year. Accordingly, our outlook assumes no revenues from an operative MCO tax after December 2022. However, because revenues from MCO taxes have historically been allocated to Medi-Cal in years after the taxes have expired —due to lags related to Medi-Cal being budgeted on a cash basis —we assume
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4116

The 2022-23 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 17, 2021 - Under current state law, the MCO tax is scheduled to expire in December 2022. Our projections assume the MCO tax expires at the scheduled date and is not reauthorized, resulting in higher annual General Fund costs in Medi ‑Cal that reach nearly $1.7 billion by 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4474

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - In October 2023, the state enacted Chapter  890 (SB  525, Durazo), which increases the minimum wage for many health care workers. The law is complex, establishing five separate minimum wage schedules depending on workers ’ type of employer.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941