Bill Text: CA SB831 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medi-Cal: prepaid health plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB831 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB831-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 831	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Strickland

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 14201 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 831, as introduced, Strickland. Medi-Cal: prepaid health plans.

   Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is
administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and
under which qualified low-income persons receive health care
benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by
federal Medicaid Program provisions.
   Existing law states that it is the intent of the Legislature,
through specified Medi-Cal provisions, to provide recipients of
public assistance and medically indigent aged and other persons with
the opportunity to enroll in prepaid health plans.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 14201 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   14201.  The intent of the Legislature is to provide, to the extent
feasible, through the provisions of this chapter and the necessarily
related provisions of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of
this part, recipients of public assistance and medically indigent
aged and other persons with the opportunity to enroll in prepaid
health plans. It is further  intended   the
intent of the Legislature  that this legislation  is to
 benefit the people of the  State of California
  state  by:
   (a) Encouraging the development of more efficient delivery of
health care to Medi-Cal recipients.
   (b) Reducing the inflationary costs of health care.
   (c) Improving the quality of medical services rendered to those
eligible enrollees as defined in this chapter and Chapter 7
(commencing with Section 14000) of this part.
   (d) Reducing administrative costs of operating the Medi-Cal Act by
allowing prepaid health plans to assume substantial costs of
administration and utilization controls that are now assumed by the
State Department of Health  Care  Services.