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

Considering Medi-Cal in the Midst of a Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape

Oct 24, 2025 - The new requirement will only apply to childless adults earning more than 100  percent of the federal poverty limit. Certain services, such as primary care and behavioral health care, are excluded from the  requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - The current rate on Medi ‑Cal enrollment ($274 per month in 2025) is more than 100 times larger than the rate on commercial enrollment ($2 per month in 2025). This rate structure is intended to draw down substantial federal funds while imposing a small cost on the taxpayers themselves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

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

Feb 5, 2025 - DHCS also estimated that over 100 facilities provided inpatient care. Behavioral health facilities are operated by various entity types, including public, private nonprofit, and private for‑profit entities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - The 2022 ‑23 budget provided $100  million one ‑time General Fund for a partnership to manufacture a biosimilar insulin product. (Diabetics take insulin to help regulate their blood sugar. Insulin is among the costliest drugs for health insurance plans and consumers.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2024-25 Budget: Future of Public Health Budget Solution

May 21, 2024 - The majority of the $100  million state operations funding is for hiring public health staff to support the recommendations of the Future of Public Health workgroup. LHJs are also required to spend at least 70  percent of funding on workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4904

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - Jewelry under a market value of $100 was exempt. Assets used in a business ✔ Assets being sold ✔ Assets were not counted if applicant showed they were making a “bona fide effort to sell. ” 2021 ‑22 Budget Package Phased Out Asset Test.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Feb 14, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis $1,075 $2,688 Tie most payments for primary care, obstetric care, non ‑specialty mental health care, specialty care, and emergency physician services to 80 percent to 100 percent of what Medicare pays, depending on the service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4838

COVID-19: American Rescue Plan’s Major Health-Related Funding Provisions

May 6, 2021 - From April 2021 through one year after the national COVID-19 Public Health Emergency has ended, the federal government will pay 100  percent of the cost of COVID-19 vaccines, including their administration, provided to Medicaid beneficiaries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4425

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - In the 2022-23 spending plan, CDPH received $100  million General Fund for state operations and local health jurisdictions received $200  million General Fund —on an ongoing basis —to implement the recommendations of the Future of Public Health workgroup.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930