The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Accordingly, the August session budget bill provides $15  million Health Care Affordability Reserve Fund in 2025-26 for the first year of payments. Appendix
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

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

Mar 6, 2025 - As shown in the figure, the quarterly average number of seniors enrolling in Medi‑Cal for the first time during the first 27 months of continuous coverage was virtually identical as it was before the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - First, we provide background on the Medi ‑Cal program, recently adopted state budget solutions, and recently enacted federal Medicaid policy changes. Next, we summarize the key drivers of our outlook.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - Oversight and Development of Budget Solutions In this section, we first provide an update on the package of Medi ‑Cal budget solutions enacted in the 2025 ‑26 budget and assess the status of those enacted solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The following paragraphs describe each of the main cost drivers in more detail after first discussing the role of the Lanterman Act in influencing these cost levers. The Role of the Lanterman Act The Lanterman Act Is the Foundation of California ’s Developmental Services System.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

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

Oct 24, 2025 - First, the policies generally did not increase employment, resulting in disenrollment among unemployed beneficiaries. Second, many of those who were already working failed to adequately prove compliance and were disenrolled from their programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Housing deposits Funding for one ‑time services necessary to establish a household, including security deposits to obtain a lease, first month ’s coverage of utilities, or first and last month ’s rent required prior to occupancy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

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

Jan 13, 2025 - First, some proposals provide short ‑term budget savings that create more budget capacity. These total $2.2  billion. Second, the Governor ’s budget includes new discretionary proposals that use budget capacity by increasing spending or reducing revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - The agreement extends for a ten‑year period after the first commercial sale of the new product. According to HCAI, the partnership will produce three generic insulin products, with insulin glargine (also known by the brand name Lantus) most likely to be launched first.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - The surge also aligns with the implementation of additional federal flexibilities meant to limit the impacts of eligibility redeterminations being conducted by counties for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941