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

Mar 6, 2025 - Figure  10 shows the average number of Medi ‑Cal enrollees over 65 who are enrolled in Medi ‑Cal for the first time in their lives in four selected time periods —before the continuous coverage period, during continuous coverage but before the asset test phase out, the asset test phase ‑out period, and finally after elimination of the asset test.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The APD process allows the state to request a 90  percent match in federal funding (rather than California ’s standard 50  percent match) to design, develop, and install IT systems that enable the state to more efficiently administer Medicaid benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

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

Oct 24, 2025 - This is because states could adopt approaches that still met federal mathematical tests that measured disproportionality. Under H.R.  1, states are now prohibited from using some of these approaches, effective July 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - These laboratory branches include specializations such as food and drug testing, environmental health testing, genetic testing, and infectious disease testing and surveillance. The state public health laboratory acts as the reference laboratory for the state, and as such, provides more complex testing services needed to further characterize pathogens identified at the local level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - The waiver —which is contingent on federal approval —is for a five-year demonstration that will, if approved, allow the state to receive federal matching funds for short-term stays in institutions for mental disease.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Moreover, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of the asset test elimination from other factors occurring at the same time, such as the unwinding of continuous coverage and approved federal flexibilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Reinstates an Asset Test. The spending plan reinstates the verification of assets, commonly referred to as an asset test, to determine Medi-Cal eligibility for seniors and persons with disabilities. Under the spending plan, seniors and persons with disabilities will need to verify that their countable assets do not exceed $130,000 per individual and $195,000 per couple.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - We assume that the key driver of this caseload surge is the recent (January 1, 2024) full elimination of the asset limit test. (In addition to specific income limits, prior to July 2022, seniors and persons with disabilities faced strict asset limits for eligibility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - Other solutions included partially restoring the asset test for seniors and persons with disabilities, ending coverage of anti ‑obesity drugs, and ending supplemental payments for dental services in Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Continuum Infrastructure Funding Proposal

Feb 17, 2021 - Counties Would Be Required to Provide Matching Funds. Under this proposal, counties would be required to provide matching funds —in the amount of 25  p ercent of grant funds —in order to receive grant funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4379