Bill Text: CA AB2726 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Specialty care networks: telehealth and other virtual services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-25 - Read second time and amended. [AB2726 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2726-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 25, 2024 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 18, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Flora |
February 14, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
The bill would require the demonstration project to include a grant program to award funding to grantees, as defined, that meet specified conditions relating to specialist networks and health information technology. Under the bill, the purpose of the grant program would be to achieve certain objectives, including, among others, reducing structural barriers to access experienced by patients, improving cost-effectiveness, and optimizing utilization. The bill would require a grantee to evaluate its performance on the objectives and to submit a report of its findings to the agency.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Division 121 (commencing with Section 151100) is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:DIVISION 121. Equal Access to Specialty Care Everywhere
151100.
For purposes of this division, the following definitions apply:(c)“Grantee” means an entity that meets all of the following conditions:
(1)Consisting of, or partnering with, a network of health care providers, including at least 50 qualifying providers that serve individuals who are uninsured, individuals who are covered under the Medi-Cal program or other state public programs serving expansion populations, and individuals who are covered under the federal Medicare Program or other federal health care programs.
(2)Ensuring interoperable electronic health record bidirectional communication with primary care providers.
(3)Coordinating services, furnished through health information technology tools to individuals, with the primary care providers of those individuals.
(4)Offering evaluation and analysis on specialty service access among underserved communities.
(5)Having a demonstrated record of supporting the delivery of health care services and addressing social determinants of health in underserved communities in multiple regions throughout the state.
(d)“Qualifying provider” means a
(e)
151101.
Implementation of this division shall be subject to an appropriation made by the Legislature for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute.151102.
(a) The California Health and Human Services Agency, in collaboration with the Department of Health Care Access and Information and the State Department of Health Care Services, shall establish a demonstration project for a grant program, aimed at facilitating a telehealth and other virtual services specialty care network(b)
151103.
(a) The(b)The purpose of the grant program is to achieve all of the following objectives:
(c)A grantee shall evaluate its performance on the objectives described in subdivision (b) and shall submit a report of its findings to the agency.