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

Mar 6, 2025 - Prior to December 2020, seniors and persons with disabilities whose incomes were between roughly 122  percent and 138  percent of the FPL had to pay a share of cost in order to receive Medi ‑Cal coverage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Though initially enacted via executive order , Medi‑Cal Rx later became permanent in state law when voters enacted Proposition 34 (2024) . Net Spending on Drugs Driven by Two Key Components. Medi ‑Cal pharmacy spending generally consists of two key components: Gross Payment for Drugs and Pharmacy Services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

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

Feb 5, 2025 - Statute, however, also provided DHCS discretion in the extent to which some of these conditions are required in order to receive grant funding. In  practice, these conditions of assistance have been applied throughout the program. 2024 ‑25 Budget Package Reduced Funding by $451   Million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - While inflation has slowed, drug prices vary considerably, with some drugs orders of magnitude more expensive than others. Brand Name Drugs Tend to Cost Much More Than Generic Drugs … Companies that develop and patent new drugs have exclusive rights to sell their product for a limited period of time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

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

Mar 6, 2025 - In order to support the implementation of ECM and Community Supports, the state implemented the PATH initiative and the Incentive Payment Program (IPP) to help create and expand program infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

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

May 21, 2024 - For example, federal grants fund health facility certification for Medicare and Medi-Cal or prevention and response for specific diseases (like HIV/AIDS). Historically, the General Fund —a flexible funding source —has been a very small source of support (3  percent to 5  percent of the department ’s total budget) that actually declined between a pre-Great Recession peak ($361  million) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic ($167  million in 2018 ‑19).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4904

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 13, 2024 - We note that DDS has recently adopted workforce initiatives that could improve workforce stability in the longer run, such as bilingual pay differentials and Direct Service Professionals University (a  training and certification program tied to wage differentials for direct care staff).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4837

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Health Budget and Policy

Oct 15, 2020 - LRC Program Funding Increased to Support Online Certification System and Other Activities. The spending plan includes $415,000 ongoing from the LRC Fund to support CDPH ’s new online certification and payment system and other program activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4281

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - Individuals who have been tried with a felony but are deemed by a mental health professional to be IST are referred to DSH for treatment, with the goal of restoring them to competency in order to proceed with their felony trials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Major Behavioral Health Proposals

Feb 16, 2023 - As such, the Legislature could consider requiring periodic reporting by Cohort 1 counties of key metrics that could include: (1)  the number of CARE petitions received and the number of individuals admitted to the program; (2)  the number of, and hours spent on, clinical evaluations; (3)  the hours spent by county behavioral health staff preparing for, and appearing in, court; (4)  the services
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4689