Bill Text: CA SB1308 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medi-Cal: county organized health systems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB1308 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1308-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1308	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Nguyen

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 14087.8 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1308, as introduced, Nguyen. Medi-Cal: county health systems.
   Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is
administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under
which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services.
The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal
Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law authorizes the department
to negotiate exclusive contracts with any county which seeks to
provide, or arrange for the provision of the Medi-Cal services to
Medi-Cal beneficiaries, as specified. Existing law requires that when
the department has entered into a contract with a county, that the
department, at a minimum, monitor the level and quality of services
provided in the county and the county's expenditures pursuant to the
contract, as specified.
   This bill would require the department to additionally report to
the Legislature annually on the level and quality of services
provided in the county and the county's expenditures pursuant to the
contract.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 14087.8 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   14087.8.  When the department has entered into a contract with a
county pursuant to this article, the department shall, at a minimum,
through a method independent of any agency of the county, monitor
 and report to the Legislature annually on  the level and
quality of services provided in a county, as well as a county's
expenditures pursuant to the contract, and shall ensure conformity
with federal law.