AB 390, as introduced, Logue. Health care.
Existing law requires the State Department of Health Services, whenever possible and feasible, to give due consideration to the appropriate organization and the ready accessibility and availability of the facilities and resources for health care to eligible persons, and to new and innovative approaches to the delivery of health care services.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 14000 of the Welfare and Institutions
2Code is amended to read:
The purpose of this chapter is to afford to qualifying
4individuals health care and related remedial or preventive services,
5including related social services which are necessary for those
6receiving health care under this chapter.
7The intent of the Legislature is to provide, to the extent
8practicable, through the provisions of this chapter, for health care
P2 1for those aged and otherbegin delete personsend deletebegin insert individualsend insert, including family
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membersend insert who lack sufficient annual income to meet the
3costs of health care, and whose other assets are so limited that their
4application toward the costs of such care would jeopardize the
5begin delete personend deletebegin insert individual’send insert or family’s future minimum self-maintenance
6and security. It is intended that whenever possible and feasible:
7(a) The means employed shall allow, to the extent practicable,
8begin insertan end inserteligiblebegin delete personsend deletebegin insert individualend insert to secure
health care in the same
9manner employed by the public generally, and without
10discrimination or segregation based purely onbegin delete theirend deletebegin insert his or herend insert
11 economic disability. The means employed shall include an
12emphasis on efforts to arrange and encourage access to health care
13through enrollment in organized, managed care plans of the type
14available to the general public.
15(b) The benefits available under this chapter shall not duplicate
16those provided under other federal or state laws or under other
17contractual or legal entitlements of thebegin delete personend deletebegin insert individualend insert orbegin delete personsend delete
18begin insert
individualsend insert receiving them.
19(c) In the administration of this chapter and in establishing the
20means to be used to provide access to health care tobegin delete personsend delete
21begin insert individualsend insert eligible under this chapter, the department shall
22emphasize and take advantage of both the efficient organization
23and ready accessibility and availability of health care facilities and
24resources through enrollment in managed health care plans and
25new and innovative fee-for-service managed health care plan
26approaches to the delivery of health care services.
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