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

Mar 6, 2025 - Community Supports are an optional benefit that MCPs may offer to eligible members. When Community Supports first became available in January 2022, only five Community Supports were offered by at least half of all MCPs and only two MCPs offered all Community Supports.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - To encourage survey completion, the department offered trainings to providers on the data collection surveys and sent weekly e ‑mail reminders to remind providers to submit their data before the deadline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - In concept, CalRx aims to offer lower ‑cost drugs to the market, offering less costly alternatives to consumers and creating more competition. According to HCAI, several months after the Naloxone Distribution Project began using CalRx as the primary supplier, the program ’s previous supplier notably reduced its prices.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: Equity Considerations

Mar 12, 2021 - Second, while ILOS offerings would vary regionally depending on which ILOS plans elect to provide, overall, such services offerings are likely to expand relative to today under existing programs. Third, CalAIM would consolidate Whole Person Care and Health Homes within a single suite of programs operated or arranged by managed care plans.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4402

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: New Directions for Services for Seniors and Persons With Disabilities

Mar 15, 2021 - Today, managed care plans may offer such services but would not be reimbursed for the associated costs. Many of the services that could be offered as ILOS benefits currently are provided through existing LTSS programs, including personal care and home care services, medically tailored meals, and home modifications such as wheelchair accessible ramps.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4404

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

Oct 24, 2025 - Employers in turn might respond in a number of ways, such as offering employees less generous health benefits, shifting costs onto employees, or reducing employment. People who purchase health insurance themselves generally would pay the higher premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - Additionally, the current proposal expands the list of nontraditional Medi-Cal benefits that may be offered to enrollees to include asthma remediation services. Resolve Key Outstanding Questions About the Proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Beginning in the mid ‑2010s, the state began to offer full ‑scope (comprehensive) services to all individuals regardless of immigration status. (The  state General Fund fully incurs the costs of services provided beyond the partially federally funded restricted ‑scope services.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the May Revision Medi-Cal Budget

May 21, 2021 - Consequently, in concept, there should not be a gap in the ability of managed care plans to offer these services. The May Revision Medi ‑Cal proposal does not augment other programs or services that correspond to the other 13 ILOS that could begin to be offered in January 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4436