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

Mar 6, 2025 - Nursing facility transition to a home Services provided to assist beneficiaries transitioning from nursing facility care to home settings in which they are responsible for living expenses. Personal care and homemaker services Services provided to assist beneficiaries with daily living activities, such as bathing, dressing, housecleaning, and grocery shopping.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Medi-Cal Telehealth Proposal

May 13, 2021 - Another study of a health care provider network found that a telehealth expansion resulted in an increase in total service utilization (including both in ‑person and telehealth services) within that network of 80  p ercent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4430

The 2022-23 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 29, 2022 - For example, in 2020 ‑21, all but one RC spent more (on average, 23  percent more) on white consumers living with their parents than on Latinos consumers living with their parents. Every RC spent more (on average, 61  percent more) on independent or supported living services for white consumers living on their own relative to Latino consumers in similar situations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4577

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Since 2021 ‑22, the Legislature has also authorized funding for programs intended to strengthen and stabilize the provider workforce in order to establish a more reliable provider network and improve access to services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - Certain networks operate among public health laboratories in California, while other networks work nationally with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and public hea lth laboratories in other states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 15, 2023 - Services are delivered by a large network of private for ‑profit and nonprofit providers. In addition to state General Fund and some smaller funding sources, these services are purchased in part through federal funding obtained through the Medicaid HCBS waiver, described below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4683

The 2022-23 Budget: Public Health Foundational Support

Feb 16, 2022 - Does Not Strengthen Public Health Laboratory Network Statewide. While the plan enhances state lab activities, it does not include a clear strategy for integrating the 28 local public health labs and the state lab into a cohesive network.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4544

The 2019-20 Budget: Using Proposition 56 Funding in Medi-Cal to Improve Access to Quality Care

Feb 22, 2019 - Maintain a Network of Contracted Health Care Providers. Rather than the state maintaining a network of contracted health care providers and facilities —as is the case in Medi ‑Cal FFS —in Medi ‑Cal managed care, managed care plans are responsible for establishing their own networks of participating providers and facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3949

Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Access

May 7, 2021 - Medi-Cal Children ’s Preventive Services Have Declined Significantly During COVID-19 About half of children living California are on Medi-Cal —with a significant majority enrolled in Medi-Cal managed care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4426

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on Home- and Community- Based Services Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2022 - Provide medical and supportive services to individuals residing in permanent supportive housing and congregate care settings. 298 Eliminating Assisted Living Waiver Waitlist. Eliminate Assisted Living Waiver waitlist by increasing waiver slots by 7,000. 255 Services: Enhancing HCBS Capacity and Models of Care Developmental Services Rate Model Implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4524