The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Promotes Higher Drug Rebates. This year ’s spending plan also aims to increase drug rebates (which serve to create General Fund savings) in a number of ways. Most notably, the administration plans to contract with a pharmacy rebate aggregator to negotiate rebates with manufacturers on drugs provided to UIS members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

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

Oct 24, 2025 - The state also could structure copays in ways that promote high ‑value care, such as by adopting higher charges for less medically necessary services. These decision points will affect the impact on utilization and associated savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

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

Mar 6, 2025 - As plans, providers, and members have learned more about the benefit and DHCS made changes to policies to improve access to the benefit, utilization has increased. Community Supports utilization overall has steadily grown over the course of the demonstration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - While LHJs are responsible for many of the public health services directly received by Californians, CDPH focuses primarily on po pulation-wide public health initiatives such as education campaigns or coordinating statewide disease outbreak responses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - This improves the budget ’s bottom line. School and Community College Spending Higher by $5   Billion. Reflecting these higher revenue estimates, the administration ’s estimates of constitutionally required General Fund spending on K ‑14 education is $4.7  billion higher than our November estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Rebates —Federal Financial Management Reports. Federal law also requires states to submit annual financial information on their Medicaid programs. These financial reports, which also are available to the public, include line ‑item information on federal and state supplemental drug rebate savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Specifically, between July 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023, the asset limits were increased to $130,000 for individuals and $195,000 for couples (with an additional $65,000 allowable for each additional household member), and were fully eliminated effect ive January 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2025-26 Budget: MCO Tax and Proposition 35

Feb 26, 2025 - Significant implementation delays could limit the measure ’s initial effectiveness on improving access and quality in the Medi-Cal program. To this end, the Legislature likely will want to keep apprised of the administration ’s progress, ensuring that implementation is both thoughtful and timely.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4992

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - Before entering into these partnerships, HCAI must ensure they result in savings, address market failures, improve patient access, and are viable. Since Inception, Two Key Initiatives Comprise CalRx.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979