The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - If this were to occur, what systems will be in place to identify these cases and notify the appropriate RC in a timely manner so that the RC can correct the error? The department stated that its budget projections for 2026 ‑27 do not incorporate any potential added costs due to the changes in H.R 1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - One possible reason for our higher estimate is that our model reflects not only disenrollment among current enrollees, but also reduced enrollment flows over time and a persistent risk of disenrollment among eligible individuals due to added administrative burden.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Having the estimate for the total senior caseload added by eligibility expansions allows us to estimate the caseload impact of the asset test elimination —an impact that is very challenging to estimate on its own without consideration of the impact of all the other policy changes affecting the senior caseload being implemented at the  same time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

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

Oct 24, 2025 - …But Potentially With Added Complexity. Adding more flexibilities also could come with the potential downside of more complexity for beneficiaries and counties. For example, exempting high unemployment counties from work requirements could create more volatility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

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

Feb 5, 2025 - These facilities are estimated to offer inpatient treatment to more than 2,600 people at any time and outpatient treatment to over 280,000 people annually. Proposition 1 (2024) will provide an additional $4.4 billion to the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Over Time, Medi ‑Cal Will Enroll Fewer People at Higher Cost. Our outlook estimates Medi ‑Cal will enroll fewer people over time, with caseload falling from nearly 15  million people in 2024 ‑25 to nearly 12  million people by 2029 ‑30.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

Mental Health Services Act: Revenue Volatility and the Governor’s Proposal to Reduce Allowable County Reserves

Jul 13, 2023 - One way to measure the variability in a data series is average deviation (AD). AD summarizes —for a given time period —how many percentage points the data in a series deviate from the average growth rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4780

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The program ’s initial operations had been supported by $60  million one-time General Fund, provided in 2018-19 and spent down over time. To cover costs in 2025-26, the spending plan reappropriates the remaining unspent General Fund amount ($6  million) and provides additional support from a few special funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

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

Mar 6, 2025 - ECM Recipients MCPs Phased in ECM to Different POFs Over Time. As shown in Figure  2 , MCPs have been required to provide the ECM benefit to members based on a list of eligible POF categories that have grown over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

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