Organizations cannot successfully advocate for issues without engaging in effective budget advocacy. While the process is opaque, Advocates successfully navigates this process to secure and protect funding for CHCs and its patients.

2026 Budget Priorities

PPS for UIS Delay

Seeking a one-year delay of the Administration and the Legislature's decision to remove CHCs PPS rate for the UIS population. Advocates is seeking a delay until July 1, 2027 to allow for the Legislature, and a new Governor, to take a comprehensive approach to the state's health care needs to ensure all Californians remain covered and have access to care. Ultimately, a full restoration of all the cuts to Medi-Cal would be the desired outcome, including the PPS for UIS cuts.
UPDATE: Asm. Juan Carrillo will champion this issue.

Gender-Affirming Care (GAC) Funding

Seeking $26M to secure state funding to protect GAC services for individuals under the age of 19 and those who have lost access to healthcare coverage dur to federal policy changes, and to bolster the capacity of providers to scale up services for patients who have lost access to care due to hospital youth GAC clinic closures.

Health Enrollment Navigator Funding

Seeking $8M to expand a pool of public/private funding to restore funding for the Health Enrollment Navigators Project to support Medi-Cal outreach, enrollment, and renewal efforts given new and significant changes to the Medi-Cal program.

2025 Budget Priorities

Health Enrollment Navigator Funding

$20M request for the Health Enrollment Navigators Project at health centers to assist with Medi-Cal outreach, enrollment, and renewal efforts. Current program funding is set to expire at the end of June 2025.
UPDATE: Advocates were not able to secure funding in the FY 25/26 budget to continue the Navigators Project. Advocacy will continue in light of HR 1.

Proposition 35 Funding

Maximize MCO tax resources for CHCs, ensure successful development and implementation of the clinic quality incentive program, and protect the purpose and intent of the initiative in the budget and legislative process. While the Legislature will play an oversight role in how the funding is distributed, the majority of the advocacy will be administrative/regulatory efforts.
UPDATE: The FY 25/26 budget maintained the $100M for the Community Clinic Directed Payments thereby more than doubling the fund which was once known as the non-hospital clinic supplemental payment pool.. However, the budget approved the sweeping of the Prop. 56 primary and specialty care provider rate increases and used the funding to increase MCO plan rates.

Supplemental Payment Pool

Ensuring Proposition 35 funding allocated for CHCs is included in the FY 25-26 budget to supplement the Community Clinic Directed Payment program (formally the non-hospital clinic 340B Supplemental Payment Pool).
UPDATE: This funding was protected in the FY 25/26 budget increasing the pot of funding to over $200M.