The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The department has stated that its goal is to have as many providers as possible earn the quality payments, but it has not yet discussed how it might approach circumstances in which providers do not achieve them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - These drugs do not come with rebates, because federally require d price reductions already occurred at the front end when the pharmacy purchased the drugs. Federal guidance also directs states to exclude claims that do not come with a federal share of cost.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Health plans that participate in Covered California must use these accounts so that federal subsidies do not pay for abortion services. The fund is continuously appropriated through the 2028-29 fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

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

Oct 24, 2025 - While considerably lower than in the existing disproportionate tax, this matching rate is far higher than what the state accomplishes with most other taxes, which do not generally directly draw down more federal funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

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

Jan 13, 2025 - There are a handful of differences in our estimates, but these changes are small enough on net that they do not substantively change our assessment of the budget condition. Specifically, the administration has higher revenue estimates than our office, but these are mostly offset by their higher spending estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Enhancing Federal Financial Participation for Consumers Served by the Department of Developmental Services

Nov 9, 2021 - Reasons Offered for Not Enrolling in Medi ‑Cal or the Waiver or Being Hesitant to Do So. Some themes emerged about reasons certain families either do not want to enroll their consumer family member in Medi ‑Cal or the waiver or that made them hesitant in the process of doing so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4471

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 15, 2023 - Relative to other recent budgets, the Governor ’s proposal contains relatively fewer major new initiatives and we do not find major issues with these or with the administration ’s underlying caseload assumptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4683

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - In contrast, we do not view these items as baseline spending because they were not approved in any budget ‑related legislation. Consequently, we do not consider withdrawing the inflation set ‑aside or shifting back to lease revenue bonds from cash to be budget solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

Enhancing Federal Financial Participation for Consumers Served by the Department of Developmental Services—An Interim Update

Apr 19, 2021 - (Some individuals —particularly children —receive only case management services from RCs, but either do not need additional services at the time or receive needed services outside of the RC system, such as through schools.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4415

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

Mar 10, 2022 - ETP grants do not directly encourage businesses to hire new workers or do so in a way that diversifies their workforce. As a result, ETP training grants may be consistent with one goal of the care economy package —upskilling the workforce —but likely would not contribute to the package ’s other goals, including increasing the number of workers and diversifying the workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572