The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Accordingly, we downloaded California’s drug utilization data from the first quarter of 2018 through the second quarter of 2024 (the latest quarter available at the time of our analysis). Rebates —Federal Financial Management Reports.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Specifically, in order to be eligible, providers must (1)  comply with Electronic Visit Verification, (2)  comply with the federal HCBS Settings Rule, and (3)  complete independent audits or reviews if total payments from RCs are above a certain threshold.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - Provides Funding for Electronic Health Records Project. The spending plan includes $21  million General Fund in 2023-24 and $22  million General Fund in 2024-25 and ongoing for project planning and procurement and activities needed for the transition of the project into implementation of the Continuum Electronic Health Record System.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 9, 2022 - Although the budget assumption was developed prior to the most recent  federal action to extend the PHE, the assumption, as it relates to the expiration of the increase in federal funding, is consistent with the latest federal action.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4522

Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - This platform provides behavioral health services to children and youth aged 25 and younger —regardless of payer source —through (1)  interactive exercises and games, (2)  automated screening and assessment tools, and (3)  direct services delivered by peers and coaches.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Health Care Access and Information

Feb 27, 2024 - Funds from the tax increase are continuously appropriated and deposited into the California Electronic Cigarette Excise Tax Fund, of which  10  percent is designated for this program. State Also Recently Established Loan Program for Financially Distressed Hospitals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The payments were intended to provide grants to providers supporting various activities, including the implementation of electronic health record systems, improved data collection and exchange, and care management systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

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

Oct 24, 2025 - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) previously adopted two rules intended to streamline eligibility and enrollment processes, such as by verifying income and assets using electronic data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - CDPH received a $10  million grant from the CDC for the LDX project, an effort to modernize the state ’s electronic laboratory data exchange systems. The project aims to connect laboratory inventory management, emergency response activities, and laboratory results reporting between state and local public health laboratories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Medi-Cal Telehealth Proposal

May 13, 2021 - We define non ‑real ‑time exchange as the delivery of health information through an electronic messaging system (such as secure email). Services delivered through non ‑real ‑time exchange are often referred to as “asynchronous ” or “store and forward ” telehealth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4430