BILL NUMBER: AB 969	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 14105.22 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 969, as introduced, Atkins. Medi-Cal: clinical laboratory and
laboratory services.
   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. Existing law provides that reimbursement
for clinical laboratory or laboratory services, as defined, may not
exceed 80% of the lowest maximum allowance established by the federal
Medicare program for the same or similar services.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 14105.22 of the Welfare and Institutions Code
is amended to read:
   14105.22.  Reimbursement for clinical laboratory or laboratory
services, as defined in Section 51137.2 of Title 22 of the California
Code of Regulations, may not  exceed   surpass
 80 percent of the lowest maximum allowance established by the
federal Medicare program for the same or similar services.