The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - The federal share of cost in each state generally is determined by a formula, with the share in California at 50 percent. Each state’s specific federal share (in California’s case, 50 percent) also applies to gross pharmacy costs and drug rebate savings, with some exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - As Figure  5 shows, however, as measured by the consumer price index, prescription drug cost inflation has slowed over the past 50 years. While drug inflation has tended to exceed overall inflation, this trend reversed in the last few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

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

Mar 6, 2025 - From July 2022 through September 2024, the caseload in the expansion to individuals age 50 and older —a group that is notably not limited to those age 65 and over —increased by about 120,000  individuals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

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

Feb 5, 2025 - From the three ‑year period of 2008 ‑2010 to three ‑year period of 2017 ‑2019, the share of California adults with SMI increased by around 50  percent, with the share of California young adults with SMI nearly doubling over the period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The spending plan eliminates General Find for grants to the California Community Colleges ($30  million in 2023-24 and $70  million in 2024-25) and to the California State University and University of California ($50  million in 2024-25).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

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

Jul 13, 2023 - While not required by MHSA, state regulations currently require counties to use 50  percent of CSS funding for FSPs. FSPs provide mental health and wraparound services —such as housing and employment support —for individuals with the greatest mental health needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4782

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Feb 14, 2024 - Ground emergency medical transportation 50 130 Increase rates to around 50 percent to 60 percent of Medicare and adopt Medicare payment structure. Clinics 50 125 b Expand and convert existing supplemental payment program for non ‑hospital 340B providers into utilization and performance ‑based managed care directed payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4838

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

Feb 27, 2024 - This downward revision is the result of an assumed $50  million in deferred spending for the CalRx initiative to 2025 ‑26. The initiative supports a public-private partnership to develop and manufacture a biosimilar insulin product.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the Governor’s Major May Revision Behavioral Health Proposals

May 24, 2021 - The Governor ’s May Revision includes $5  million CFRF in 2021 ‑22, $50  million General Fund in 2022 ‑23, $40  million General Fund in 2024 ‑25, and $5  million General Fund in 2025 ‑26 to the California Department of Public Health to implement a behavioral health literacy awareness campaign.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4439

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

Feb 10, 2023 - In addition, the federal government currently pays 90  percent of Medi ‑Cal costs for individuals enrolled as part of the ACA optional expansion, as opposed to 50  percent for most other beneficiary populations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4675