BILL NUMBER: AB 880	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 14000 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 880, as introduced, Gomez. Medi-Cal.
   Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the
State Department of Health Care Services, to afford to qualifying
individuals health care and related remedial or preventive services.
The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal
Medicaid provisions.
   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 1.  Section 14000 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   14000.   (a)    The purpose of this chapter is
to afford to qualifying individuals health care and related remedial
or preventive services, including related social services 
which   that  are necessary for those receiving
health care under this chapter. 
    The 
    (b)     The  intent of the Legislature
is to provide, to the extent practicable, through the provisions of
this chapter, for health care for those aged and other persons,
including family persons who lack sufficient annual income to meet
the costs of health care, and whose other assets are so limited that
their application toward the costs of such care would jeopardize the
person or family's future minimum self-maintenance and security. It
is intended that whenever possible and feasible: 
   (a) 
    (1)  The means employed shall allow, to the extent
practicable, eligible persons to secure health care in the same
manner employed by the public generally, and without discrimination
or segregation based purely on their economic disability. The means
employed shall include an emphasis on efforts to arrange and
encourage access to health care through enrollment in organized,
managed care plans of the type available to the general public.

   (b) 
    (2)  The benefits available under this chapter shall not
duplicate those provided under other federal or state laws or under
other contractual or legal entitlements of the person or persons
receiving them. 
   (c) 
    (3)  In the administration of this chapter and in
establishing the means to be used to provide access to health care to
persons eligible under this chapter, the department shall emphasize
and take advantage of both the efficient organization and ready
accessibility and availability of health care facilities and
resources through enrollment in managed health care plans and new and
innovative fee-for-service managed health care plan approaches to
the delivery of health care services.