SB 640, as introduced, Lara. Medi-Cal.
The Med-Cal Act establishes 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 the purpose of the Medi-Cal Act is to afford to qualifying individuals health care and related remedial or preventive services, including related social services that are necessary for those receiving health care.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those 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 servicesbegin delete whichend deletebegin insert thatend insert are necessary for those
6receiving health care under this chapter.
P2 1The intent of the Legislature is to provide, to the extent
2practicable, through the provisions of this chapter, for health care
3for those aged and other persons, including family persons who
4lack sufficient annual income to meet the costs of health care, and
5whose other assets are so limited that their application toward the
6costs of such care would
jeopardize the person or family’s future
7minimum self-maintenance and security. It is intended that
8whenever possible and feasible:
9(a) The means employed shall allow, to the extent practicable,
10eligible persons to secure health care in the same manner employed
11by the public generally, and without discrimination or segregation
12based purely on their economic disability. The means employed
13shall include an emphasis on efforts to arrange and encourage
14access to health care through enrollment in organized, managed
15care plans of the type available to the general public.
16(b) The benefits available under this chapter shall not duplicate
17those provided under other federal or state laws or under other
18contractual or legal entitlements of the person or persons receiving
19them.
20(c) In the administration of this chapter and in
establishing the
21means to be used to provide access to health care to persons eligible
22under this chapter, the department shall emphasize and take
23advantage of both the efficient organization and ready accessibility
24and availability of health care facilities and resources through
25enrollment in managed health care plans and new and innovative
26fee-for-service managed health care plan approaches to the delivery
27of health care services.
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