The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - Accordingly, August budget bill legislation (Chapter 994 of 2024 [AB  157, Gabriel]) provides $25  million for the directed payment. Implements Children ’s Health Care Transition. The 2022-23 budget authorized DHCS to sunset the California Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) program, which provided early health screening services for children in the fee-for-service delivery system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The spending plan includes General Fund reductions of $4  million in 2024-25, $161  million in 2025-25, $329  million in 2026-27, and $157  million in 2027-28 and ongoing to various programs meant to address the IST waitlist.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Residential services, which include independent and supported living services either in a consumer ’s home or in licensed facilities that provide 24 ‑hour nonmedical residential care, typically have a relatively higher cost per person due to the comprehensiveness of the service provided (including personal services, supervision, and/or assistance essential for self ‑protection or completing the activities of daily living).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Dec 7, 2023 - Outlook Current Year (2023-24) Estimates Lower Level of Spending in Current Year. We estimate that Medi-Cal General Fund spending will be $37  billion in 2023-24, a decrease of about $500  million (1.3  percent) compared to the enacted level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4820

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

Feb 27, 2024 - To help address last year ’s budget problem, the 2023 ‑24 budget enacted two key budget solutions to HCAI ’s 2022 ‑23 workforce package. First, it delayed $115  million community health worker funds in the Workforce for a Health California for All initiative from 2023 ‑24 to 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - Most of the delays shift funding from 2022-23 to 2023-24. As an exception, the budget delays most of the planned support in 2023-24 for a community health workers initiative into the following two years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - Under the contract, which extends through the end of 2026, the contractor is to sell the new over‑the‑counter naloxone nasal spray product at $24 for each twin pack. The product entered the market in May 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

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

Feb 5, 2025 - Beginning in 2023 ‑24, the state was facing General Fund budget shortfalls. As  a part of addressing those budget problems, a portion of funding for BHCIP was delayed in 2023 ‑24. Later, in the 2024 ‑25 budget, program funding was reduced by $451  million General Fund, leaving $1.8  billion in funding remaining.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - In 2023 ‑24, we estimate these rebates comprised 3  percent of gross spending, up from as low as 1  percent in some years. This increase was expected following the switch to the Medi ‑Cal Rx system in 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

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

Feb 10, 2023 - …But Reduce General Fund Costs in 2023 ‑24. The ramp down schedule for the enhanced federal funding will result in six additional months of enhanced federal funding in 2023 ‑24 than assumed by the administration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4675