The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The SNF WQIP provides performance-based directed payments to facilities that satisfied metrics in quality of care, equity in healthcare outcomes, and workforce investments. This budget solution provides General Fund savings of $70  million in 2025-26 and $140  million in 2026-27 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

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

Oct 24, 2025 - This is higher than the current commercial tax rate ($2.25 per ‑member, per ‑month) and lower than the current Medi ‑Cal tax rate ($274 per ‑member, per ‑month). Increased Costs for Health Care Consumers … Though health plans would pay the higher commercial tax, plans likely would try to pass on most or all of the cost of the tax onto their members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Services to Enable Members to Remain in a Home ‑Like Setting Day habilitation programs Programs provided to assist beneficiaries with developing skills necessary to reside in home ‑like settings, often provided by peer mentor ‑type caregivers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - As   Figure  2 shows, we estimate (based on historical federal data) that Medi ‑Cal pharmacy spending in 2023 ‑24 was nearly double the level in 2018 ‑19. Pharmacy spending continued growing even after the roll out of Medi ‑Cal Rx in 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

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

Feb 5, 2025 - Effective January 1, 2023, this benefit provides, for a five ‑year period, certain community ‑based mobile crisis intervention services to Medi ‑Cal members. Spending on this benefit is estimated to be about $250  million in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

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

Mar 6, 2025 - (The  state General Fund fully incurs the costs of services provided beyond the partially federally funded restricted ‑scope services.) These expansions occurred incrementally, with an expansion to those age 50 and over effective July 1, 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5075

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - Patent ‑protected, brand name drugs tend to be significantly more expensive than generic versions. This is because (1)  generic drugs often do not require the same level of research and development to go to market and (2)  entry of generic drugs creates market competition that drives down prices.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

Overview of Major Impacts of H.R. 1 – One Big Beautiful Bill Act [Publication Details]

Aug 20, 2025 - Overview of Major Impacts of H.R. 1 – One Big Beautiful Bill Act [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5067

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic [Publication Details]

Jun 12, 2025 - An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5056