BILL NUMBER: SB 613	CHAPTERED  10/11/01

	CHAPTER  742
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 11, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 10, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 13, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 10, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 6, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 4, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 1, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 19, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Alarcon

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2001

   An act to add Section 14018.1 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 613, Alarcon.  Medi-Cal:  notifications to managed care plans.
   Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by
the State Department of Health Services, under which qualified
low-income persons are provided with health care services.
   This bill would require the department to notify a Medi-Cal
managed care plan of the date of the annual redetermination of a
Medi-Cal beneficiary, who is in a disabled aid category and whose
redetermination is the responsibility of the department.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 14018.1 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   14018.1.  The department shall prospectively notify a Medi-Cal
managed care plan of the date of the regularly scheduled annual
redetermination of a Medi-Cal beneficiary in a disabled aid category,
who is enrolled in that plan and where eligibility redetermination
is the responsibility of the department. Nothing in this section
shall provide a beneficiary with additional Medi-Cal coverage due to
the department's failure to provide this notice.