The 2024-25 Budget: The MCO Tax Package at May Revision

May 22, 2024 - It would cost $115  million annually in MCO tax funds ($230  million annually total funds). The administration has not provided further detail on how the proposed payment would work. Backfills Declining Proposition  56 Funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4905

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - This year ’s health trailer bill continuously appropriates $115  million General Fund ($230  million total funds) for a new Medi-Cal directed payment to children ’s hospitals. The legislation tasks DHCS with determining the methodologies and parameters for the new payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

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

Feb 5, 2025 - The administration is working to allocate the bond funding quickly, with plans to aw ard up to $3.3  billion in May 2025 and a stated commitment to award all funding by 2026. This leaves a brief window in which the Legislature can conduct oversight of the program and influence the administration ’s program administration decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

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

Feb 27, 2024 - First, it delayed $115  million community health worker funds in the Workforce for a Health California for All initiative from 2023 ‑24 to 2024 ‑25. Second, it shifted $196  million in 2023 ‑24 for several behavioral health initiatives from the General Fund to the Mental Health Services Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: The Overarching Issues

Feb 9, 2021 - For example, programs such as Whole Person Care and the Dental Transformation Initiative, currently authorized under th e 1 115 waiver and funded with a mix of federal and non ‑General Fund state and local funds, expire at the end of 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4357