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

Mar 6, 2025 - As plans, providers, and members have learned more about the benefit and DHCS made changes to policies to improve access to the benefit, utilization has increased. Community Supports utilization overall has steadily grown over the course of the demonstration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of CalAIM Financing Issues

Feb 16, 2021 - CalAIM Could Improve Managed Care Plan Fiscal Incentives to Deliver More Cost ‑Effective Care. Medi ‑Cal managed care plans receive a monthly payment, or “capitated rate, ” per member to cover the cost of the care they arrange and pay for on behalf of their members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4374

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: The Overarching Issues

Feb 9, 2021 - The objective is for ECM to play an important role in connecting high ‑risk, high ‑need members to the appropriate ILOS and other, more standard preventive services necessary for the improvement of health outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4357

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 24, 2022 - A person referred to the CARE Court is called a “respondent. ” A respondent can be referred to the CARE Court by certain qualified members of the community, including family members and members of the person ’s household, licensed behavioral health professionals, and first responders who have had repeated interactions with the respondent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4642

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - …Data to Fully Assess Those Improvements Is Lacking. Although there is evidence that one-time, temporary, and new ongoing support to public health laboratories has improved laboratory operations, the state does not collect systematic data to assess laboratory funding and capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Access

May 7, 2021 - Policy Options for Sustaining and Improving Access to Health Care. The Legislature could consider ways to sustain and improve access to health care during and after the pandemic. Various policy options come with different near- and long-term costs, while also generating different levels of benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4426

The 2022-23 Budget: Health Care Access and Affordability

Feb 23, 2022 - One member appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules. One member appointed by the Speaker of the  Assembly. The CalHHS Secretary or their designee. The Chief Health Director (or their deputy) of the California Public Employees ’ Retirement System (as a nonvoting member).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4560

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: Equity Considerations

Mar 12, 2021 - Many of these beneficiaries are members of populations with high needs, such as elderly and disabled individuals and foster youth, who potentially could benefit from the expanded services and care coordination under CalAIM.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4402

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Specifically, between July 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023, the asset limits were increased to $130,000 for individuals and $195,000 for couples (with an additional $65,000 allowable for each additional household member), and were fully eliminated effect ive January 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

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

May 21, 2024 - The proposed elimination to the Future of Public Health funding very likely would adversely impact the ability of CDPH and LHJs to maintain the effort to improve public health made since the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4904