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

Mar 6, 2025 - Assets used in a business ✔ Assets being sold ✔ Assets were not counted if applicant showed they were making a “bona fide effort to sell. ” 2021 ‑22 Budget Package Phased Out Asset Test. The 2021 ‑22 budget package included trailer bill legislation that phased out the asset test for seniors and persons with disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

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

Feb 5, 2025 - BHCIP Created in 2021 ‑22 Budget. The  2021 ‑22 budget plan included $2.2  billion (later reduced, as described below) to create BHCIP. (This amount was originally the sum of $1.7  billion General Fund and $530  million in federal funding, but the federal funding was shifted to the General  Fund in December 2024, making the General Fund the sole funding source for BHCIP.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - As   Figure  6 shows, while brand drugs represented a small share of commercial health plan fee‑for‑service claims in 2021, they comprised a majority of spending. Costs also are higher for consumers, with average out‑of‑pocket costs more than four times the cost for brand drugs than generics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

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

Mar 6, 2025 - As shown in Figure  4 , General Fund spending for these programs has increased substantially since 2021 ‑22, with ECM spending increasing by $308  million (466  percent) and Community Supports spending increasing by $68  million (317  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003