The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - This is because each quarter of data contains around 40,000 line items, and some drugs are spread across multiple lines. To better simplify these data, we used each drug ’s classification as identified under the Food and Drug Administration ’s National Drug Code Directory .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 13, 2024 - The 2022 ‑23 budget accelerated the implementation time line from five to four years by eliminating the step planned for Year 4 under the original time line. The accelerated time line included the following steps: Year 1 (2021 ‑22) to Year 3 (2023 ‑24).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4837

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - As of our analysis, however, HCAI indicated that it could not provide an estimated time line to receive federal approval to sell  the product. Naloxone Initiative Appears to Be Moving at Faster Pace.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - On a net basis, these items slightly improve the budget’s bottom line. Neither our November estimates nor the administration ’s estimates included any costs associated with the devastating wildfires in Southern California, as both were developed before those wildfires began.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2021-22 Budget: Assessment of CalHEERS Dashboard

Mar 25, 2021 - The administration and stakeholders then would use the dashboard to prioritize each fix and functionality and set time lines for their inclusion in future CalHEERS releases. Legislature Adopted Supplemental Report Language in 2020 ‑21.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4408

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

May 22, 2024 - For this reason, the scope of the rule changes or the time line to enact them is not known. MCO Tax Package at Governor ’s Budget Last Year ’s Budget Committed Portion of MCO Tax Funds for Augmentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4905

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

Oct 24, 2025 - As such, the Legislature likely will want to better understand the needed changes, the time line for DHCS to adopt these changes, and the potential to offset some of these costs using enhanced federal funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 15, 2023 - Although the administration has voiced confidence in the workgroup ’s ability to meet the time line to develop the incentive structure, we have heard concerns from stakeholders that meeting the time line (which has been accelerated by one year relative to the initial rate study implementation plan) will prove difficult.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4683

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The completed planning documents, including the cost estimate and projected time line to finish the project, will provide the Legislature with the information necessary to evaluate the merits of the proposed project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

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