The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Somewhat less notably, spending also has increased for drugs that help control blood sugar, kidney disease, and heart disease among diabetics (known as Sodium ‑Glucose Cotransporter  2, or SGLT2, inhibitors).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2024-25 Budget: Future of Public Health Budget Solution

May 21, 2024 - The funding was intended help the state better prepare for public health emergencies and to address public health challenges like the rise in STIs, deaths from certain types of heart disease, and incidences of Alzheimer ’s in California ’s aging population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4904

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the May Revision Medi-Cal Budget

May 21, 2021 - The medically tailored meals pilot program is a three ‑year pilot, which began in 2018, to provide Medi ‑Cal participants with congestive heart failure medically tailored meals. The 2020 ‑21 Budget Act extended the pilot through calendar year 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4436

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

May 13, 2021 - Remote patient monitoring is often provided for ( 1)  h igh ‑risk patients, such as those with heart conditions or who have been recently discharged from a hospital, and ( 2)  p atients with chronic conditions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4430

Disease Management [Publication Details]

Feb 19, 2003 - Poor management of treatment for persons with chronic diseases, such as asthma, diabetes, and heart disease, is driving up the state's costs for Medi-Cal. The implementation of a disease management program could eventually reduce state expenditures by as much as hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/961

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Developmental Services Budget

Feb 24, 2017 - The person ‑centered approach is at the heart of current state and federal developmental services policy. The state of California codified an individualized person ‑focused IPP process and the right of individuals with developmental disabilities to make choices about their own lives through 1992 amendments to the Lanterman Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3581