Bill Text: CA SB1184 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medi-Cal managed care plans: administrative costs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-15 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB1184 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB1184-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1184	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Maldonado

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to add Section 14464.5 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1184, as introduced, Maldonado. Medi-Cal managed care plans:
administrative costs.
   Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the
State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health
care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. One of
the methods by which these services are provided is pursuant to
contracts with various types of managed care plans.
   Existing law authorizes the department to negotiate and establish
an individual administrative cost limit in its contracts with prepaid
health plans or Medi-Cal managed care plans contracting to provide
services to Medi-Cal beneficiary enrollees.
   This bill would prohibit prepaid health plans and Medi-Cal managed
care plans contracting to provide services to Medi-Cal beneficiary
enrollees from including the cost of greeting cards or gifts given to
providers as administrative costs.
   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 14464.5 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   14464.5.  Prepaid health plans and Medi-Cal managed care plans
contracting under this chapter or Chapter 7 (commencing with Section
14000) to provide services to Medi-Cal beneficiary enrollees shall
not include the cost of greeting cards or gifts given to providers as
administrative costs.