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AIDS Drug Assistance Program seeks expanded eligibility and warns rebate fund constraints
Summary
CDPH's Office of AIDS presented a larger ADAP budget estimate for 2025-26, described two prior loans from the ADAP rebate fund to the General Fund and outlined planned program changes including higher income eligibility and expanded premium supports; stakeholders urged earlier repayment of loans.
Joseph Agrama, branch chief of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) branch at the California Department of Public Health, told the subcommittee that the ADAP estimate for fiscal year 2025-26 is $462.3 million, an increase of about $51.8 million from the prior year.
Agrama said proposed increases in the estimate reflect expansions and early-action enhancements including raising financial eligibility for ADAP and PREP AP from 500% to 600% of the federal poverty level, higher premium-payment caps for employer-based and Medicare…
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