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 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 24, 2022 - COVID-19 Testing in Schools. The spending plan includes $200  million General Fund in 2021-22 for the state to directly purchase COVID-19 tests for schools and $102  million General Fund ($405  million total funds) in 2022-23 for schools to bill Medi-Cal for COVID-19 testing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4642

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - In 2023, the Legislature codified several efforts to make processes across RCs more consistent in order to improve access to services statewide (Chapter  192 of 2023 [S B  138 , Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review]).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - Specifically, as of the end of the first full year of redeterminations, total Medi-Cal caseload stood at nearly 15  million —more than two million enrollees greater than was projected by the administration in May 2023 and our office in November 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - State Public Health Laboratory Provides Enhanced Testing Services and Local Public Health Laboratory Support. The state public health laboratory has six branches that specialize in different testing services, and in 2023, five of these were reorganized into the Center of Laboratory Sciences (CLS), which provides direct oversight of almost all state laboratory testing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Because the General Fund would have otherwise covered these costs, the spending plan also scores these amounts as budget solutions. Prescription Drugs Eliminates Coverage of Certain Drugs. The spending plan ends coverage of certain optional pharmacy benefits in Medi-Cal, beginning January 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 15, 2023 - This  is most evident in the rate for Independent Living Services, which assumes staffing costs equivalent to Supported Living Services despite the former being a much more intensive service model. In addition, we have heard concerns about the lack of ongoing inflation adjustments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4683

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - The department will use the funding for testing, support for the department ’s COVID-19 website and public information campaign, and incentives for vaccinations for children. Funds Disease Data Systems Maintenance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

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

Jan 13, 2025 - For example, constitutionally required debt payments are $1.1 billion lower under the administration’s estimates and the administration scores a higher entering fund balance—largely due to over $1 billion in additional revenue accruals—in 2023‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2022-23 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 29, 2022 - For example, in 2020 ‑21, all but one RC spent more (on average, 23  percent more) on white consumers living with their parents than on Latinos consumers living with their parents. Every RC spent more (on average, 61  percent more) on independent or supported living services for white consumers living on their own relative to Latino consumers in similar situations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4577