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

Mar 6, 2025 - 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 continuous coverage but before the asset test phase out, the asset test phase ‑out period, and finally after elimination of the asset test.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The APD process allows the state to request a 90  percent match in federal funding (rather than California ’s standard 50  percent match) to design, develop, and install IT systems that enable the state to more efficiently administer Medicaid benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

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

Oct 24, 2025 - This is because states could adopt approaches that still met federal mathematical tests that measured disproportionality. Under H.R.  1, states are now prohibited from using some of these approaches, effective July 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - These laboratory branches include specializations such as food and drug testing, environmental health testing, genetic testing, and infectious disease testing and surveillance. The state public health laboratory acts as the reference laboratory for the state, and as such, provides more complex testing services needed to further characterize pathogens identified at the local level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

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

Nov 28, 2016 - Seniors turning 65 between 2015 and 2019 who have greater than a high school education spend fewer years on average with one or more ADL limitations than seniors with a high school degree or GED credential and seniors with less than a high school education (4.2 years vs. 4.8 years and 5.8  years, respectively).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3509

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - The waiver —which is contingent on federal approval —is for a five-year demonstration that will, if approved, allow the state to receive federal matching funds for short-term stays in institutions for mental disease.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - Enhanced Federal Match for Medicaid Programs. Medicaid is an entitlement program whose costs generally are shared between the federal government and states based on a set formula. In March, Congress approved a temporary 6.2  percentage point increase in the federal government ’s share of cost for state Medicaid programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Moreover, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of the asset test elimination from other factors occurring at the same time, such as the unwinding of continuous coverage and approved federal flexibilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

The 2020-21 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Developmental Services Budget

Feb 7, 2020 - Pilot ‑testing of START services at San Andreas and San Diego RCs is not yet complete and no reports are available yet about the implementation and progress. .  .  . Crisis Training, as Proposed, Is Justified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4147

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