Bill Text: CA AB2545 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medi-Cal: nonemergency medical transportation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-23 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2545 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2545-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2545	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 14136.6 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2545, as amended, Logue. Medi-Cal: nonemergency medical
transportation.
   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 provides for a schedule of
health care benefits under the Medi-Cal program, including medical
transportation services, subject to utilization controls.
   This bill would require nonemergency medical transportation
services provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries by managed care
organizations directly or under contractual arrangements to be
subject to the same personnel, equipment, and inspection requirements
as nonemergency medical transportation services provided by
fee-for-service enrolled providers  ,   as specified
 .  This bill would provide that a nonemergency medical
transportation services provider is not prohibited from establishing
higher standards, as specified. 
   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 14136.6 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   14136.6.   (a)    Notwithstanding any other law,
nonemergency medical transportation services provided to Medi-Cal
beneficiaries by managed care organizations directly or under
contractual arrangements shall be subject to the same personnel,
equipment, and inspection requirements as nonemergency medical
transportation services provided by fee-for-service enrolled
providers.  These requirements shall be, at a minimum, consistent
with Sections 51151.7, 51231.1, 51231.2, and 51323 of Title 22 
 of the California Code of Regulations, as those sections read
on January 1, 2013.  
   (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a nonemergency medical
transportation services provider from establishing additional
standards, provided that these standards are, at a minimum,
consistent with the standards prescribed in Sections 51151.7,
51231.1, 51231.2, and 51323 of Title 22 of the California Code of
Regulations, as those sections read on January 1, 2013.