The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - The 2025 ‑26 Medi ‑Cal budget changed significantly over the course of the budget development process due to higher ‑than ‑anticipated costs in the Medi ‑Cal program as well as the state ’s worsening fiscal condition.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The department stated that its budget projections for 2026 ‑27 do not incorporate any potential added costs due to the changes in H.R 1. Will the department be able to determine whether its costs increase in the future due to H.R. 1?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2021-22 Budget: Assessment of CalHEERS Dashboard

Mar 25, 2021 - The administration organizes each of the functionalities and fixes that are ready for deployment into one of several CalHEERS releases during the course of the year. (A release is a CalHEERS update that implements several defect fixes and new functionalities at once.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4408

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

Feb 16, 2021 - Caseload likely will rise significantly over the course of 2021 ‑22 as a result of the COVID ‑ 19 p andemic. Given the trends we have observed so far, however, we believe caseload rising to 16  m illion enrollees by January 2022 i s unlikely.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4373

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

Oct 24, 2025 - …But Potentially With Added Complexity. Adding more flexibilities also could come with the potential downside of more complexity for beneficiaries and counties. For example, exempting high unemployment counties from work requirements could create more volatility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

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

Mar 6, 2025 - In the paragraphs that follow, we provide our analysis that results in ou r estimate of at least 165,000 seniors being added due to eligibility expansions since 2020. (As a consequence of this estimate, it follows naturally that we estimate up to 60,000  seniors being added due to the effects of continuous coverage, the unwinding, and unwinding flexibilities, for a total increase of 225,000 seniors due to policy changes.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Community Supports utilization overall has steadily grown over the course of the demonstration. However, most of that growth has been concentrated among a few Community Supports services, and for other services utilization has been relatively flat or slightly declining.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - Strategies to do so have included expanding the behavioral health workforce; adding benefits and increasing rates in Medi ‑Cal; and increasing capacity through managed care plans, schools, and in other  settings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

Mental Health Services Act: Revenue Volatility and the Governor’s Proposal to Reduce Allowable County Reserves

Jul 13, 2023 - One way to measure the variability in a data series is average deviation (AD). AD summarizes —for a given time period —how many percentage points the data in a series deviate from the average growth rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4780

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - Grant recipients would be required to operate the facilities and units added by the bond for at least 30 years. The proposal is silent on the types of entities that would be eligible to receive grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790