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

Mar 6, 2025 - Figure  8 shows caseload in the three senior aid categories from April 2021 through December 2024. Senior caseload grew by about 320,000 individuals over the period, with growth occurring almost exclusively in the Medically Needy category.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The 2023-24 spending plan included a $400  million loan from the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Rebate Fund to the General Fund. This year ’s spending plan includes another $500  million loan from the ADAP Rebate Fund to the General Fund as a budget solution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Health

Apr 5, 2022 - CalBRACE provides tools to local governments to aid in their planning efforts, such as county ‑level profiles on climate change and health, and data visualizations on health vulnerabilities. Medi‑Cal Reforms to Address Social Determinants of Health.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4580

The 2022-23 Budget: Public Health Foundational Support

Feb 16, 2022 - Adds a Regional Disaster Medical and Health Specialist to the State ’s Mutual Aid Regions. Currently, each of the state ’s six mutual aid regions have a Regional Disaster Medical and Health Coordinator and two Regional Disaster Medical and Health Specialists (whose expertise typically is in emergency medical services).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4544

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - For instance the state currently does not have an emergency financial aid program for community college students (although it does have traditional financial aid programs for these students). Deciding how to best allocate state emergency financial aid funds could take extra time and deliberation, especially as the Legislature would want to consider how any potential state allocation methods could interact with federal allocation methods.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

Federal COVID-19 Response Actions Affecting Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities

Apr 16, 2020 - CARES = Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security and OAA = Older American Act. Provides Financial Assistance to Small Business —Including Those That Provide Supports for Older Adults and Persons With Disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4221

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Health

Oct 22, 2021 - The spending plan includes $13  million ongoing from the General Fund for the prevention and control of STDs, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis C. This funding builds on a 2019 ‑20 augmentation of $17  million ongoing from the General Fund ($7  million for STDs, $5  million for HIV/AIDS, and $5  million for hepatitis C).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4465

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - In some cases, this term is meant to refer specifically to caregiving occupations such as nurses, home health aides, and child care providers. In other cases, it is defined to include a broader set of health professions such as social workers, physicians, and psychiatrists (in ad dition to the caregiving occupations just mentioned).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

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

Feb 16, 2023 - As  of mid ‑February, the administration had yet to release full implementation details that would aid the Legislature in evaluating the extent to which the spending plan for BHBH should be modified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4689