Bill Text: CA SB1452 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medi-Cal: managed care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-25 - Set for hearing April 9. Hearing postponed by committee. [SB1452 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1452-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1452	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 14029.93 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1452, as introduced, Wolk. Medi-Cal: managed care.
   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. Under existing law, one of the methods
by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with
various types of managed care plans.
   This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, provide
that a Medi-Cal beneficiary for whom a conservator has been appointed
under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act shall be exempt from mandatory
enrollment in a managed care plan under the Medi-Cal program.
   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 14029.93 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   14029.93.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a Medi-Cal
beneficiary for whom a conservator has been appointed under the
Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of
Division 5) shall be exempt from mandatory enrollment in a managed
care plan under the Medi-Cal program.
   (b) This section shall be implemented only to the extent permitted
by federal law.