BILL NUMBER: AB 1076	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 14016.53 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1076, as introduced, Jones. Medi-Cal.
   Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the
State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health
care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. Existing
law establishes the benefits under the program and the criteria under
which they are provided, which may include the provision of services
on a fee-for-service basis or pursuant to managed care plans.
   This bill would require the department, no later than September 1,
2009, in consultation with the Legislature, to develop and implement
a program to improve the Medi-Cal fee-for-service health care
delivery system to better coordinate and manage health care services,
emphasize timely primary and preventive care and management of
chronic diseases, and reduce the use and overuse of high cost
emergency and hospital inpatient services.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 14016.53 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   14016.53.  The department shall, no later than September 1, 2009,
in consultation with the Legislature, develop and implement a program
to do all of the following:
   (a) Improve the Medi-Cal fee-for-service health care delivery
system to better coordinate and manage health care services.
   (b) Emphasize timely primary and preventive care and management of
chronic diseases.
   (c) Reduce the use and overuse of high cost emergency and hospital
inpatient services.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to improve the Medi-Cal fee-for-service health care
delivery system at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that
this act take effect immediately.