BILL ANALYSIS Ó SB 299 Page 1 Date of Hearing: July 8, 2015 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Jimmy Gomez, Chair SB 299 (Monning) - As Amended May 18, 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Policy |Health |Vote:|18 - 0 | |Committee: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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: SB 299 Page 2 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 SB 299 Page 3 (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