Enhancing Federal Financial Participation for Consumers Served by the Department of Developmental Services—An Interim Update

Apr 19, 2021 - (Some individuals —particularly children —receive only case management services from RCs, but either do not need additional services at the time or receive needed services outside of the RC system, such as through schools.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4415

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Health Budget and Policy [Publication Details]

Oct 15, 2020 - The year-over-year net increase in General Fund spending is largely due to the projected COVID-19-related increase in the Medi-Cal caseload. The post describes major health-related actions (both policy actions and various budget adjustments) adopted by the Legislature as part of its 2020-21 spending plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4281

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Community Care Demonstration Project

Feb 19, 2021 - DSH Would Reassess Methodology for Ongoing Funding Amount After Three Years. Under the CCDP, DSH would reassess the methodology for determining the ongoing funding amount provided to participating counties after three years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4382

The 2019-20 Budget: Proposition 56 Revenues: Reductions in Fixed Allocations

Feb 14, 2019 - Hereafter, we refer to this problematic approach as the “year-over-year method. ” Year-Over-Year Method: an Example. The left-hand side of Figure  3 below illustrates the allocation for graduate medical education under the year-over-year method.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3939

The 2020-21 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Developmental Services Budget [Publication Details]

Feb 7, 2020 - We first provide an overview of the budget proposal, including caseload projections and changes in year‑over‑year spending. We then consider four key new policy proposals. First, and most significantly, we consider the Governor’s proposal for a performance‑incentive program, which appears to represent a new direction for the DDS system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4147

The 2020-21 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget [Publication Details]

Feb 14, 2020 - The 2020-21 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget [Publication Details] The 2020-21 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget Format: HTML Description: In this report, we provide high‑level background on the Medi‑Cal program and an overview of the major drivers of year‑over‑year spending changes in the Governor’s budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4161

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: Equity Considerations

Mar 12, 2021 - All that said, the evaluations only cover the expiring pilot program ’s earliest years of implementation. Positive impacts directly related to program implementation could take longer to arise. The forthcoming evaluations should cover the impacts of the latter years of implementation and, therefore, fundamentally could change our understanding of the impacts of these programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4402

The 2019-20 May Revision: Governor's May Revision Medi-Cal Budget

May 14, 2019 - Significant Changes to the Governor ’s Proposition  56 Multiyear Spending Plan The May Revision proposes a variety of changes related to the use of Proposition  56 funding in Medi-Cal over the next several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4046

The 2020-21 Budget: Re-Envisioning Medi-Cal—The CalAIM Proposal

Feb 28, 2020 - (Because of the complexity of the rate ‑setting process, it typically takes two to three years for year ‑over ‑year changes in plan costs to be reflected in their capitated rates.) Since the state pays Medi ‑Cal managed care plans largely on the basis of their costs, any growth in managed care plans ’ ILOS costs would ultimately be borne by the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4185

Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Access

May 7, 2021 - While the number of hospital inpatient bed days was roughly unchanged between 2020 and 2019 (on net), physician and nonphysician encounters were down by around 10  percent year over year. As Figure  5 shows, physician and nonphysician encounters have gradually, but not fully, returned to 2019 levels by the last quarter of 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4426