Bill Text: CA AB576 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Medi-Cal: reimbursement for abortion.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-02-01 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB576 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB576-Enrolled.html
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Enrolled
September 12, 2023 |
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Passed
IN
Senate
September 11, 2023 |
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Passed
IN
Assembly
May 31, 2023 |
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Amended
IN
Assembly
March 30, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 576
| Introduced by Assembly Member Weber (Coauthors: Assembly Members Boerner, Pellerin, Aguiar-Curry, Cervantes, Quirk-Silva, and Wilson) (Coauthor: Senator Ashby) |
February 08, 2023 |
An act to add Section 14131.07 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 576, Weber.
Medi-Cal: reimbursement for abortion.
Existing law establishes 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 that abortion is a covered benefit under Medi-Cal. Existing regulation authorizes reimbursement for specified medications used to terminate a pregnancy through the 70th day from the first day of the recipient’s last menstrual period.
This bill would require the department, by March 1, 2024, to review and update Medi-Cal coverage policies for medication abortion to align with current evidence-based clinical guidelines. After the initial review, the bill would require the department to update its Medi-Cal coverage policies for medication abortion as needed to align with evidence-based clinical guidelines.
The bill would require the department to allow flexibility for providers to exercise their clinical judgment when services are performed in a manner that aligns with one or more evidence-based clinical guidelines.
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.
Section 14131.07 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:14131.07.
(a) (1) By March 1, 2024, the department shall review and update Medi-Cal coverage policies for medication abortion to align with current evidence-based clinical guidelines.(2) After the initial review, the department shall update its Medi-Cal coverage policies for medication abortion as needed to align with evidence-based clinical guidelines.
(b) For purposes of subdivision (a), the department shall allow flexibility for providers to exercise their clinical judgment when services are performed in a manner that aligns with one or more evidence-based clinical guidelines.
