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

Mar 6, 2025 - PATH Initiative Provides Funding to Help Providers Participate in CalAIM. The state received approval under the waiver to provide $1.85  billion in total funds (incorporating the federal match) for the PATH initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the Governor’s Major May Revision Behavioral Health Proposals

May 24, 2021 - The Legislature may wish to consider what its longer-term vision for child and youth behavioral health services would be, as the administration appears to be setting one potential path through these proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4439

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

May 21, 2021 - Providing Access and Transforming Health (PATH) Infrastructure Funding. CalAIM, as proposed in January, would place new requirements on counties to initiate Medi ‑Cal enrollment, care coordination, and services for county inmates prior to their release from jail.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4436

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

Feb 5, 2025 - Selected Recent Initiatives Increasing Access to Behavioral Health Services The Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program is just one piece of the state ’s overall strategy to increase access to behavioral health services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - Expands Support for CalAIM Provider Access and Transforming Health (PATH). CalAIM PATH is a multiyear initiative that provides funding for capacity building to a number of programs established by the CalAIM waiver, in particular, Enhanced Care Management, Community Supports, and Justice Involved services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Furthermore, there are two major pieces of missing information which are key to supporting the rationale for this proposed package. These pieces of information include: (1)  the specific workforce gaps by care economy provider type that exist (accounting for major recent state investments that should produce additional care economy providers) and the extent to
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - With so many moving pieces, and with the state ’s overall fiscal situation still heading in the wrong direction, the Legislature may need to continue considering its Medi ‑Cal priorities in the coming years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 10, 2023 - Under the waiver, the state must use the federal matching funds to help support state costs associated with the CalAIM Providing Access and Transforming Health (PATH) program. The waiver generates total General Fund savings of $646  million over five years, including $153  million in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4675

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - Although there is evidence that one-time, temporary, and new ongoing support to public health laboratories has improved laboratory operations, the state does not collect systematic data to assess laboratory funding and capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Administration Requests One ‑Time Funding to Continue Planning for LOIS in 2026 ‑27. The Governor ’s budget proposes $5.7  million one ‑time General Fund to continue the PAL process for LOIS. At the time of this report, DDS was working to complete Stage 2 of the PAL process, or the Alternatives Analysis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157