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

Mar 6, 2025 - Community Supports are an optional benefit that MCPs may offer to eligible members. When Community Supports first became available in January 2022, only five Community Supports were offered by at least half of all MCPs and only two MCPs offered all Community Supports.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

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

Feb 5, 2025 - In order to provide individuals appropriate care, the behavioral health system must offer a wide range of services in a variety of settings, commonly referred to as a continuum of care. Ideally, behavioral health services would be provided in the righ t settings and offered in sufficient supply to allow for individuals to move through this continuum as their needs change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - In concept, CalRx aims to offer lower ‑cost drugs to the market, offering less costly alternatives to consumers and creating more competition. According to HCAI, several months after the Naloxone Distribution Project began using CalRx as the primary supplier, the program ’s previous supplier notably reduced its prices.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - Beginning in the mid ‑2010s, the state began to offer full ‑scope (comprehensive) services to all individuals regardless of immigration status. (The  state General Fund fully incurs the costs of services provided beyond the partially federally funded restricted ‑scope services.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010