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 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: 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 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 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Community Care Demonstration Project

Feb 19, 2021 - There is significant variation by county in the rate of felony IST referrals for competency restoration, as shown in figure  2 in 2018 ‑19. (We use 2018 ‑19 data because this is the most recent full year of data that precedes any pandemic ‑related changes to the process of referring felony ISTs to treatment.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4382

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

Feb 5, 2025 - The share of Californians aged 12 and over having an SUD in the past year rose nearly 10  percent between 2015 ‑2017 and 2018 ‑2019. The consequences of these behavioral health challenges have also grown more severe.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - The state likely also will incur costs from the need to expand its workforce in other areas to respond to climate change impacts —such as by hiring additional engineers and scientists to assess vulnerabilities, plan for adaptation strategies, and design and implement the state ’s responses to climate risks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018. The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018 (Proposition  1) authorized $4  billion in general obligation bonds for various housing programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790