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

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

Mar 11, 2020 - “The Role of Selection Bias in Comparing Cesarean Birth Rates between Physician and Midwifery Management. ”   Obstetrics and Gynecology  80 (2): 161 ‑65. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1635724. Cross ‑Barnet, Caitlin, Ian Hill, Lisa Dubay, Brigette Courtot, Sarah Benatar, Bowen Garrett, Fred Blavin, et  al. 2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4197

The 2019-20 Budget: Proposition 56 Revenues: Reductions in Fixed Allocations

Feb 14, 2019 - A Better Approach: the “Base Year Method. ” Instead of treating the backfill estimate as a year-over-year change, the administration instead could apply it to the same fixed dollar amount each year. In particular, this amount could be the original funding amount authorized by Proposition  56 and allocated in 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3939

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 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget

Feb 16, 2018 - Instead, FFA ‑supervised foster caregivers historically received a fixed supplemental per child per month payment on top of the standard foster care payment mandated by the state for all HBFC placements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757

The 2021-22 Budget: Assessment of CalHEERS Dashboard

Mar 25, 2021 - The administration organizes each of the functionalities and fixes that are ready for deployment into one of several CalHEERS releases during the course of the year. (A release is a CalHEERS update that implements several defect fixes and new functionalities at once.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4408

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget [Publication Details]

Feb 16, 2018 - The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget [Publication Details] Description: In this report we provide a broad overview of the Governor's health and human services budget, highlighting major year-over-year changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3757

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Both IPP and PATH —incentives funding that is also shown on Figure  4 in addition to General Fund ECM and Community Supports spending —have fixed, limited ‑term funding availability that ends in 2025 ‑26 and 2026 ‑27, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 13, 2019 - Proposition   56 r evenues dedicated to Medi ‑Cal are projected to be $1. 02  b illion in 2019 ‑20, and to decline on annual basis thereafter. Moreover, scheduled changes in the FMAP for certain populations will increase the state ’s share of cost for Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3935

Recent Changes to State and County IHSS Wage and Benefit Costs

Dec 14, 2018 - As of December 1, 2018, eight counties have applied the 10  percent option to locally established wage and benefit increases. Local Wage Supplement. Beginning in 2017 ‑18, counties and unions can collectively bargain a local wage supplement, meaning local IHSS provider wages will always exceed the state minimum wage by a fixed dollar amount.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3913