The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Under these formulas, a dru g ’s initial rebate is between 13  percent and 23  percent of its price, depending on the type of drug. Over time, the initial rebate increases if the drug ’s price rises faster than inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2025-26 Budget: MCO Tax and Proposition 35

Feb 26, 2025 - Pursuant to last year ’s trigger language, the Governor ’s budget assumes the remaining augmentations under the state ’s previous spending plan (those scheduled to begin in 2025 and 2026) are no longer in effect.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4992

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Housing deposits Funding for one ‑time services necessary to establish a household, including security deposits to obtain a lease, first month ’s coverage of utilities, or first and last month ’s rent required prior to occupancy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Governor ’s Budget Includes Some Smaller Proposals. The Governor ’s budget includes three categories of discretionary proposals. First, some proposals provide short ‑term budget savings that create more budget capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 5, 2025 - These troubling trends have accelerated since the COVID ‑19 pandemic and have made improving California ’s behavioral health system a priority for the state ’s policymakers. Demand for Behavioral Health Services Not Being Met.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - As adopted in last year ’s budget, the Governor ’s budget includes $50  million one ‑time General Fund to HCAI to help support construction of a new manufacturing facility. The funds originally were appropriated in 2022 ‑23, but were later deferred to 2025 ‑26 as a budget solution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

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

Mar 6, 2025 - (By applying a historical percentage of seniors already enrolled in Medi ‑Cal to our estimate of the January 1, 2025 population aged 65 and over, we are already accounting for the extent to which the natural growth in the state ’s overall senior population has contributed to the senior caseload increase.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - Given the significant uncertainty, however, the Legislature likely will want to carefully assess the administration ’s estimates —including its back-up information —when released with the Governor ’s budget in January.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - Creates New Directed Payment for Children ’s Hospitals. 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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

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

May 22, 2024 - It first provides background on the MCO tax and the package that was in place at Governor ’s budget. (The Governor ’s budget included a plan to implement a multiyear spending framework that was adopted in last year ’s budget.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4905