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 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - One key issue is rebates —negotiated discounts that drug makers pay to health plans after drugs are purchased. Rebates help health plans mitigate the high cost of drugs, and brand drugs likely come with higher rebates than generic drugs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

Issues That Could Impact Californians' Health Care Coverage in 2023 and Beyond

Dec 16, 2022 - The ACA also provided for the establishment of state ‑run individual health insurance marketplaces, such as Covered California, that allow consumers to purchase health care coverage. Most consumers who purchase plans through Covered California receive subsidies that reduce or eliminate their premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4654

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - Beginning in 1991, MRMIP provided health insurance benefits to high-risk individuals who could not purchase private insurance. Program enrollment fluctuated over the years, but in more recent years declined to just a few hundred people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2023-24 Budget: Assessment of Covered California Budget Solution

Feb 13, 2023 - A provision of this act temporarily enhanced federal support for premium subsidies for coverage purchased on health benefit exchanges in 2021 and 2022. (As we will note later, the enhanced federal premium subsidies were later extended through 2025).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4681

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Health

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, low ‑income households have less money to purchase and operate air conditioning units during extreme heat events, air filters to moderate wildfire smoke, or back ‑up electricity generators to provide electricity during PSPS events.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4580

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - (While not included in this post, cities and counties in California with populations greater than 500,000 also received a combined $5.8  billion in CRF directly from the federal government.) Guidance from the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Health

Oct 22, 2021 - California Blue Zone Challenge. $2  million for grants to cities and communities that have adopted or are willing to adopt dementia-friendly practices. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Wraparound Services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4465

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Major Behavioral Health Proposals

Mar 3, 2022 - Specifically, (1)  tribal entities will be required to provide a 5  percent match; (2)  counties, cities, and nonprofits will be required to provide a 10  percent match; and (3)  for ‑profit or private organizations, in partnership with counties, will be required to provide a 25  percent match.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4569