BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SB 299
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Date of Hearing: July 8, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Jimmy Gomez, Chair
SB 299
(Monning) - As Amended May 18, 2015
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Urgency: Yes State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill makes minor changes in the processes used by the
Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to enroll health care
providers in the Medi-Cal program. Specifically, this bill:
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1)Exempts from the current DHCS notarization requirements, any
provider that chooses to enroll electronically.
2)Conforms state law to federal regulation by requiring DHCS to
designate a provider or applicant as a "high" categorical risk
if DHCS (in addition to the federal Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS)) lifted a temporary moratorium within
the previous six months for the particular provider type
submitting the application.
3)Deletes various obsolete provisions of law.
FISCAL EFFECT:
Negligible fiscal impact.
COMMENTS:
Purpose. This bill removes a notarization requirement for
Medi-Cal provider applicants that will be obsolete for providers
doing their enrollment on-line when DHCS rolls out its new
online enrollment system. Because DHCS the online system is
expected to be operative this fall, the bill contains an urgency
clause.
In addition, this bill ensures that California is compliant with
federal regulations that specify that the state Medicaid
agencies must adjust the categorical risk level to "high" when a
state Medicaid agency or CMS in the previous six month lifted a
temporary moratorium.
There is also obsolete conditional language added by SB 1529
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(Alquist), Chapter 797, Statutes of 2012, in state law that is
removed by this bill, because the conditions are already
satisfied.
Analysis Prepared by:Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916) 319-2081