The 2022-23 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 29, 2022 - State and federal policy have shifted in recent years toward promoting competitive integrated employment (CIE) for individuals with developmental disabilities. (In this context, “competitive ” means market rate wages.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4577

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 16, 2021 - While this represents a gain of more than 1 m illion enrollees over 2019 ‑20, it is still nearly 300, 000 e nrollees fewer than what the budget act projected. We estimate that the downward revision for 2020 ‑ 21 r esults in $ 950  m illion in General Fund savings ($1. 4  b illion in total funds).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4373

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

Feb 5, 2025 - According to national survey data, the share of Californians experiencing serious mental illness (SMI) and SUD increased during the 2010s at alarming rates. From the three ‑year period of 2008 ‑2010 to three ‑year period of 2017 ‑2019, the share of California adults with SMI increased by around 50  percent, with the share of California young adults with SMI nearly doubling over the period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Medi-Cal Telehealth Proposal

May 13, 2021 - In 2019, DHCS adopted a permanent Medi ‑Cal telehealth policy after a process of stakeholder engagement and public comment. This Medi ‑Cal telehealth policy, which was in effect until the onset of the COVID ‑ 19 p andemic (specifically at the time the national public health emergency declaration was made), allowed for the coverage of certain Medi ‑Cal services delivered through certain telehealth modalities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4430

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The National Center for Health Statistics found that the prevalence of any diagnosed developmental disability in children aged 3 ‑17 years in the United States increased by about a full percentage point (from 7.40  percent to 8.56  percent) between 2019 and 2021 —a significant change in a short period of time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - HCAI attributes this reduction to the competition created by the new CalRx naloxone product. Whether or not CalRx has broader impacts to consumers, however, will depend on how available these new drugs are to consumers, as well as utilization.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Access

May 7, 2021 - Once federal Medicaid rules effectively allow Medi-Cal eligibility terminations to resume after the end of the national COVID-19 public health emergency and as the state ’s labor market improves, fewer Californians will be eligible for Medi-Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4426

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of CalAIM Financing Issues

Feb 16, 2021 - Originally proposed in January  2020 as part of the 2020 ‑ 21 b udget, CalAIM was withdrawn at the May Revision due to the coronavirus disease  2019 and the estimated effects the pandemic was having on the state ’s fiscal situation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4374

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Health

Apr 5, 2022 - The more the state can learn about these adverse health impacts and which interventions are most cost effective, the better positioned it will be to prepare, plan ahead, and minimize these inevitabl e impacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4580

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - Whether matching funds or real property should be required as a condition of receiving grants for behavioral health facilities and whether HCD should be required to award grants on a competitive basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790