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 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - As Figure  2 shows, DDS caseload has increased notably over the last ten years, with an average annual growth rate of about 5  percent in total caseload from 2015 through 2025. This is faster than the population growth in the state over this period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - For example, we estimated that a more proportionate tax netting around $7 billion in revenue could cost around $30 per member, per month—about a 5 percent increase on average to commercial health plan premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 16, 2021 - Under the Governor ’s proposed budget, General Fund spending in Medi ‑Cal would grow from $22. 5  b illion in 2020 ‑ 21 t o $28. 4  b illion in 2021 ‑ 22 —a $5. 9  b illion, or 26  p ercent, increase in year ‑over ‑year spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4373

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

Mar 6, 2025 - This initial gap is somewhat expected as the previous WPC and HHP pilot demonstrations provided services most similar to those i n ECM, so plans were better able to transition to providing the ECM benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

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

Oct 24, 2025 - They would do so by increasing premiums, which in 2024 averaged over $600 per month. The increase in premiums (around 5  percent, on average) could have a variety of effects. For enrollees with employer ‑sponsored coverage, much of the cost of higher premiums would fall on employers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

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

The 2024-25 Budget: The MCO Tax Package at May Revision

May 22, 2024 - These augmentations were expected to cost $2.7  billion MCO tax funds at full implementation (when the tax was estimated at the time to raise between $5  billion and $5.4  billion annually in net revenue).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4905

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on Home- and Community- Based Services Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2022 - Provide dementia ‑capable services at licensed Adult Day and Adult Day Health centers. 5 Conditionally Approved HCBS Spending Plan Initiatives Total Funds a HCBS Infrastructure and Support Access to Technology for Seniors and Persons With Disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4524

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 15, 2023 - This  proposal is intended to help the state better track current science so as to better serve its most rapidly growing subpopulation of DDS consumers. Proposes Delaying Preschool Inclusion Grants by Two Years as a Budget Solution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4683