The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The department also reverts $233  million General Fund from 2022-23 that was available until 2026-27 (the department is reappropriating $3.4  million for the Judicial Council to carry out training related to IST evaluations).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - Since the passage of the 2022-23 budget, there have been 58 graduates of this program. In the Governor ’s proposed May Revision, approximately $3.4  million for these programs is proposed for reversion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

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

Feb 5, 2025 - Similarly, in 2021 ‑2022, 22  percent of California adults had a mental illness. In 2022, fewer than 80  percent of those with a mental illness received mental health treatment. The shortage of mental health services is more severe for young adults, with 34  percent of individuals aged 18 through 25 having a mental illness in 2021 ‑2022 and less than two ‑thirds of young adults with mental illness receiving services  in 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

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

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Pharmacy spending continued growing even after the roll out of Medi ‑Cal Rx in 2022. While this growth seems fast in isolation, it is roughly in line with overall Medi ‑Cal spending over the same time period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - All bond funding has been allocated as of August 2022. The bonds will be repaid over time using MH SA funds. NPLH has supported 247 projects and 7,852 housing units are anticipated. As of August 2022, 119 projects are under construction, 30 projects have been completed, and 498 units have units have been completed and are occupied.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2025-26 Budget: CalAIM Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports Implementation Update

Mar 6, 2025 - Our assessment of ECM and Community Supports utilization draws from data published in this report which, at the time of this brief, spans from January 2022 to June 2024. Benefit Utilization Has Been Low, but Steadily Growing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

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 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - In line with this risk, our outlook assumes future rule changes result in a much smaller MCO tax in 2 027 (around the size of the version that existed from 2020 through 2022). That said, other effects also are possible.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

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

Feb 10, 2023 - The 2022 ‑23 Budget Act included one ‑time General Fund support to eliminate the delay beginning in 2022 ‑23. The Governor ’s budget proposes to shift the elimination of the delay in provider payment processing until 2024 ‑25, which frees up $378  million one ‑time General Fund in  2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4675