The 2023-24 Budget: Health Workforce Budget Solutions

Feb 21, 2023 - For example, the University of California ’s medical schools rely on a mix of state support, student tuition and fee revenue, and faculty clinical revenue to support their operations. Three Key Issues Regarding California ’s Health Workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4691

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Major Behavioral Health Proposals

Feb 16, 2023 - Half of the delayed funds would be provided in 2024‑25 with the remaining amount provided in 2025‑26. In addition, the Governor’s budget proposes to delay $250 million in BHBH funding previously budgeted in 2023‑24 to 2024‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4689

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 15, 2023 - The Governor proposes delaying the implementation of this two ‑year program until 2024 ‑25. In last year’s analysis , we raised several issues with the design of these grants—all of these concerns still apply.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4683

The 2023-24 Budget: Assessment of Covered California Budget Solution

Feb 13, 2023 - State Established Three-Year Premium Subsidy Program Beginning in 2020. The subsidy program was designed as a three-year program from 2020 through 2022 that was designed to further reduce premium costs for certain Covered California enrollees beyond the level of support received from the existing federal premium subsidies and expand eligibility to households making up to 600  percent of the federal poverty level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4681

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 10, 2023 - Instead, as a result of the federal legislation, the enhanced federal funding will ramp down over the course of calendar year 2023. Beginning in April 2023, the enhanced rate for most services will drop from 6.2  percentage points to 5  percentage points, then to 2.5  percentage points by July  2023, 1.5  percentage points by October 2023, and will be fully eliminated by January 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4675

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - We define a delay as an expenditure reduction that occurs in the budget window (2021 ‑22 through 2023 ‑24), but has an associated expenditure increase in a future year of the multiyear window (2024 ‑25 through 2026 ‑27).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

Issues That Could Impact Californians' Health Care Coverage in 2023 and Beyond [Publication Details]

Dec 16, 2022 - This brief looks at health care coverage in California; provides background on the drivers of the significant decline in the percentage of Californians without health care coverage over the last ten years; and discusses various issues that could impact the number of Californians with coverage, and how the type of coverage they have may change, in calendar year 2023 and beyond.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4654

Issues That Could Impact Californians' Health Care Coverage in 2023 and Beyond

Dec 16, 2022 - While the increased federal support was set initially to expire at the end of calendar year 2022, Congress extended the increased federal support through calendar year 2025. The increased federal support reduced premium costs for Californians by about $1.6  billion per year, with premiums dropping to $0 for many enrollees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4654

The 2023-24 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 16, 2022 - Overview of Projections Below, we summarize our projected adjustments to the Medi ‑Cal budget and describe the major drivers of these changes in the current year (2022 ‑23), budget year (2023 ‑24), and longer term (2024 ‑25 through 2026 ‑27).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4649

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 24, 2022 - COVID-19 Testing in Schools. The spending plan includes $200  million General Fund in 2021-22 for the state to directly purchase COVID-19 tests for schools and $102  million General Fund ($405  million total funds) in 2022-23 for schools to bill Medi-Cal for COVID-19 testing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4642