The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - These classifications generally categorize drugs based on how they work, how they are used, and other factors. There are over 1,000 such classifications in the federal directory. Analysis Likely Omits Some Key Kinds of Drug Claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2025-26 Budget: MCO Tax and Proposition 35

Feb 26, 2025 - How Has Proposition  56 Impacted General Fund Spending? Enacted by voters in 2016, Proposition 56 increased taxes on tobacco-related products. The measure requires most of the resulting revenue to go to Medi-Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4992

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Utilization rates across the state were relatively flat until 2023, when ECM utilization began to gradually increase and Community Supports utilization increased much more quickly. Majority of ECM Participants Qualify Under Three POFs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - As a result, annual Medi-Cal General Fund spending could be as much as several billion dollars higher or lower than what is reflected in our outlook. Below, we su mmarize our outlook results and describe these key areas of uncertainty.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - Whether or not CalRx has broader impacts to consumers, however, will depend on how available these new drugs are to consumers, as well as utilization. How Will the Products Compare to Other Competitors?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

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

Jan 13, 2025 - As such, if the Legislature wishes to have substantively more reserves available when responding to downturns or other emergencies, we would recommend also changing the formulas that set aside funds each year to increase how much is saved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Feb 14, 2024 - Though last year ’s enacted trailer bill legislation set forth specific areas for increases, the Legislature could consider how much funding to allocate and how to structure these allocations. For  example, the Legislature could consider how much funding to allocate for base payment increases and how much funding to allocate for equity adjustments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4838

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

Feb 5, 2025 - Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond Executive Summary Program Is Building Wide Variety of Much Needed Behavioral Health Infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

Mental Health Services Act: LAO Update: The Governor's Revised Behavioral Health Modernization Proposal

Aug 21, 2023 - Additionally, the revised proposal provides greater flexibility for small counties (population under 200,000) to adjust how much funding must be used for housing interventions. …Which Might Mitigate Potential Negative Impacts to Current Services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4792

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Dec 7, 2023 - Our outlook makes the same assumptions as the enacted 2023-24 budget package around how much MCO tax revenue is used to offset General Fund spending in Medi-Cal through 2026-27. However, some factors could result in different impacts than in our outlook.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4820