The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - These drugs do not come with rebates, because federally require d price reductions already occurred at the front end when the pharmacy purchased the drugs. Federal guidance also directs states to exclude claims that do not come with a federal share of cost.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2020-21 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 14, 2020 - In the meantime, the 2018 ‑ 19 b udget reset counties ’ administrative base funding to be roughly equivalent to the total amounts provided during the ACA expansion. The 2018 ‑ 19 b udget also returned to the practice of providing an annual COLA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4161

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Community Care Demonstration Project

Feb 19, 2021 - There is significant variation by county in the rate of felony IST referrals for competency restoration, as shown in figure  2 in 2018 ‑19. (We use 2018 ‑19 data because this is the most recent full year of data that precedes any pandemic ‑related changes to the process of referring felony ISTs to treatment.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4382

The 2020-21 Budget: Analysis of the Department of State Hospitals Budget

Feb 11, 2020 - Under the JBCT program, counties provide competency restoration treatment in county jails to patients who do not require the intensive level of inpatient treatment provided in state hospitals. In addition, ongoing funding was provided beginning in 2018 ‑19 for a Community ‑Based Restoration (CBR) program in Los Angeles County.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4154

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Finally, the Governor sets the balance of the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to $4.5   billion —somewhat higher than the level enacted by recent budgets. Revenue Estimates Reasonable, but Risks Must Be Kept in Focus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 5, 2025 - Strategies to do so have included expanding the behavioral health workforce; adding benefits and increasing rates in Medi ‑Cal; and increasing capacity through managed care plans, schools, and in other  settings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Across 2018‑19 to 2020‑21, the administration’s estimates of revenue from the state’s three largest taxes are $34 million (less than 0.01 percent of total collections) above our Fiscal Outlook estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018. The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018 (Proposition  1) authorized $4  billion in general obligation bonds for various housing programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

Analysis of California’s Physician-Supervision Requirement for Certified Nurse Midwives

Mar 11, 2020 - Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that between 2013 and   2018 n urse midwives ’ average salaries increased at a faster rate than those for both OB ‑GYNs and health care practitioners generally in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4197

The 2022-23 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 29, 2022 - Many Providers Still Are Not in Compliance With HCBS Final Rule Set to Take Effect in March   2023. As of October 2021, 43 percent of the 9,050 providers of which DDS required a self‑assessment or on‑site assessment reported they do not meet or only partially meet all federal requirements, as shown in Figure 4.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4577