The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - According to HCAI, the partnership will produce three generic insulin products, with insulin glargine (also known by the brand name Lantus) most likely to be launched first. HCAI Anticipates Substantial Commercial Savings From Generic Product.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - As the nearby figure shows, there are three key GLP ‑1 agonists, each with different brand names for treating diabetes and obesity. Within the Medi ‑Cal program, semaglutide has comprised most of the utilization of GLP ‑1 agonists, mostly for Ozempic (which primarily treats diabetes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Restructuring of the MHSA Funding Categories and Impacts on County Spending

Jul 13, 2023 - To create our estimate, we used program names across counties to determine if they might qualify as housing interventions. This evaluation criteria may over or underestimate the current spending that would qualify under the Housing Interventions category in the G overnor ’s proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4782

Mental Health Services Act: Impact of Governor's Proposal on Funding for Children and Youth

Aug 10, 2023 - However, to estimate the amount of Community Services and Supports (CSS) and Innovation expenditur es that go towards children and youth services, we used program names across counties to determine if they might qualify as children and youth services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4786

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Health Care Access and Information

Feb 27, 2024 - Chapter  143 of 2021 (AB  133, Committee on Budget) changed the department ’s name to HCAI and expanded its mission and operations in several ways. For example, the legislation expanded the department ’s scope to include health care affordability issues, and also reorganized and expanded the department ’s pre-existing activities around health care workforce planning and development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of CalAIM Financing Issues

Feb 16, 2021 - This reduction reflects the expiration of certain limited ‑term spending components, namely, the managed care plan incentive payments related to ECM and ILOS. Figure  2 summarizes the Governor ’s proposed CalAIM funding plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4374

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - On January 10, 2022, Governor Newsom presented his proposed state budget to the Legislature. In this report, we provide a brief summary of the proposed budget based on our initial review. In the coming weeks, we will analyze the plan in more detail and release several additional budget analyses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Health

Oct 22, 2021 - The spending plan provides $33.7 billion General Fund for health programs. This is an increase of $6.7 billion, or 25 percent, compared to the revised 2020‑21 spending level. This year-over-year increase primarily is due to significant growth in projected General Fund spending in Medi-Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4465