The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Keeping these factors in mind, our outlook r eflects a decline in the private hospital fee, with annual revenue falling from nearly $10  billion to several billion dollars. Pursuant to state law, most of the decline in revenue will affect supplemental payments to private hospitals, with only a portion (around 25  percent) resulting in less money for existing Medi ‑Cal costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Yet, even after r emoving from the caseload the 115,000  first ‑time ‑enrolling Medi ‑Cal enrollees that are due to eligibility changes, we are left with average monthly growth of about 8,000 during 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

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

Feb 16, 2021 - The administration projects a substantial decline of about $ 200  m illion in Proposition   56 r evenues between 2020 ‑21 and 2021 ‑22. Although Proposition   56 r evenues are expected to gradually decline on a year ‑over ‑year basis, the administration ’s projected revenue decrease primarily is attributed to the anticipated implementation of Chapter   34 o f 2020 (S B  793 , Hill et. al) which bars retailers from selling flavored tobacco products.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4373

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - Just as these flexibilities appear to have been successful in minimizing the impacts of r edeterminations on Medi-Cal enrollees, the extent to which caseload will return to more normal historical levels if they are allowed to expire will be a key issue to watch.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

The 2018-19 Budget: The Administration’s Proposition 55 Estimates

Mar 1, 2018 - Proposition   55 r equires that funds allocated to Medi ‑Cal by the formula be used to increase funding for existing programs and services in Medi ‑Cal, not supplant existing General Fund support for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3765

The 2019-20 Budget: Reorganization of the Division of Juvenile Justice

Apr 10, 2019 - For example, Proposition  57 (201 6) r estricted the type of youth who could be tried as adults to only those who commit a felony when they were age 16 o r 17 o r commit certain significant crimes listed in state law (such as murder, robbery, and certain sex offenses) when they were age 14 o r 15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3998

The 2021-22 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 18, 2020 - However, should the emergency persist into 2022 ‑ 23 o r even beyond, significant General Fund savings in Medi ‑Cal could materialize to the extent that the enhanced federal funding continues as well.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4299

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget

Feb 16, 2018 - Currently, the state minimum wage is $10.50 for businesses with 25 o r fewer employees and $11 for businesses with 26 o r more employees. The state minimum wage is statutorily scheduled to increase each year until it reaches $ 15 —in 2022 for the larger businesses and in 2023 for the smaller businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757

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

Mar 11, 2020 - Declercq, Eugene R., Lisa L. Paine, Diana R. Simmes, and Jeanne F. DeJoseph. 1998. “State  Regulation, Payment Policies, And Nurse ‑Midwife Services. ”   Health Affairs  17 (2): 190 ‑200. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.17.2.190.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4197

The 2021-22 Budget: Medi-Cal Enterprise System Modernization Effort

Feb 17, 2021 - (For a comprehensive description of the PAL process, please see our February 17, 2017 r eport — The 2017‑18 Budget: The New IT Project Approval and Funding Process .) Some of the IT projects within DHCS’s Medi‑Cal IT system modernization initiatives completed the PAL process and started development and implementation, including the Federal Draw and Reporting IT project within CA‑MMIS Modernization.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4375