The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The APD process allows the state to request a 90  percent match in federal funding (rather than California ’s standard 50  percent match) to design, develop, and install IT systems that enable the state to more efficiently administer Medicaid benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health 100 100 a The spending plan assumes a portion of funds designated for this service ($88 million) cannot be allocated due to implementation issues and instead will be spent in 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2024-25 Budget: The MCO Tax Package at May Revision

May 22, 2024 - The remaining funds were designated to offset General Fund spending in Medi-Cal. Most Augmentations Were Proposed to Begin in 2025. The MCO tax package was to increase rates for a broad array of Medi-Cal providers, such as physicians, hospitals, clinics, and ground emergency transport providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4905

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - (Commercial laboratories are other entities that are not designated as public health laboratories, but perform testing services that inform public health testing.) Figure  1 describes, at a high level, the role of the different types of laboratories that provide testing services for the state ’s public health system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

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

Feb 13, 2023 - 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 2024-25 Budget: Department of Health Care Access and Information

Feb 27, 2024 - These include: (1)  promoting health care access and affordability, (2)  overseeing state health workforce issues, (3)  regulating the design and construction of health care facilities, (4)  insuring loans for nonprofit healthcare facilities, and (5)  collecting healthcare data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

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

Feb 5, 2025 - We identified a few program design details that may be posing barriers for potential applicants. For example, the administration has provided scoring preferences for launch ‑ready projects throughout BHCIP, and continues to prioritize launch ‑ready projects for awards made using Proposition  1 bond dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Major Behavioral Health Proposals

Mar 3, 2022 - (As  discussed earlier, although individuals experiencing homelessness are not a designated target population for this program as currently designed, they may ultimately access behavioral health treatment at BH ‑CIP facilities.) 2021 ‑22 Budget Established BH ‑CIP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4569

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The benefit builds on CYBHI funding provided in the 2021-22 budget for HCAI to design and build a wellness coach workforce. Creates New Directed Payment for Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLK Hospital).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2021-22 Budget: Assessment of CalHEERS Dashboard

Mar 25, 2021 - The report also could describe how the fixes and functionalities are designed to address known Medi ‑Cal eligibility functionality issues in CalHEERS, and whether any new issues have been added to the dashboard because of the CalHEERS releases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4408