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

May 21, 2021 - These include ( 1)  w hether the proposal reflects an information technology (IT) project subject to the state ’s IT project oversight rules, ( 2)  w hat the full intended scope of functionality for the project would be (for example, how the service might interface with related state efforts to expand the use of health information exchanges), ( 3)  w
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4436

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: Equity Considerations

Mar 12, 2021 - For example, Black Medi ‑Cal beneficiaries report worse overall health and suffer from chronic conditions such as diabetes at higher rates than other racial or ethnic groups. Moreover, Black state residents as a whole experience homelessness at highly elevated rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4402

The 2021-22 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 18, 2020 - Moreover, the budget act assumed that ( 1)  c aseload growth mostly would be concentrated in the families caseload category (which includes parents and children), ( 2)  t hat growth within the ACA optional expansion (which primarily includes childless adults) would be relatively slow, and ( 3)  t hat growth among seniors and persons with disabilities would be fairly robust.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4299

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Medi-Cal Student Services Funding Proposal

Feb 17, 2021 - For example, in the Medi ‑Cal program, counties are responsible for providing a set of mental health services known as Specialty Mental Health Services (SMHS), which generally are more intensive mental health services for beneficiaries (including children) with higher needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4377

The 2022-23 Budget: Public Health Foundational Support

Feb 16, 2022 - Remaining funding would be based proportionally on an LHJ ’s share of the state ’s population (50  percent of funding); level of poverty (25  percent of funding), and share of black/African American, Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander residents (25  percent of funding).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4544

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - For example, one consumer might receive five hours of respite in a given month, while another consumer might receive 20 hours of respite in the same month. Accordingly, using available data to calculate an average cost per consumer ($21,000 General Fund in 2025 ‑26, for example) or a growth rate in the average cost per consumer (8.6  percent between 2021 ‑22 and
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2020-21 Budget: Re-Envisioning Medi-Cal—The CalAIM Proposal

Feb 28, 2020 - For example: In May 2019, the Governor announced the creation of a Homeless and Supportive Housing Advisory Task Force, which has been charged with proposing solutions to address the significant level of homelessness in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4185

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - For example, we estimated that a more proportionate tax netting around $7 billion in revenue could cost around $30 per member, per month—about a 5 percent increase on average to commercial health plan premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Continuum Infrastructure Funding Proposal

Feb 17, 2021 - These details would include specifics about ( 1)  t he structure of the grant program (for example, what specific milestones counties will have to meet to receive disbursement of grant awards), ( 2)  h ow funds available to counties through the grant program will be targeted to regions of the state that experience more substantial shortages of behavioral health beds, and ( 3)  w hat oversight and evaluation activities DHCS will conduct for the grant program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4379

The 2019-20 Budget: The Governor's Individual Health Insurance Market Affordability Proposals

Feb 7, 2019 - Second, the current federal administration determined in October 2017 t hat it lacked the authority to make CSR payments to insurers and discontinued the payments. In response to this change, California and many other states adopted a strategy under which the cost of continuing to provide enhanced silver plans is largely covered by increased federal APTC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3927