BILL NUMBER: AB 1932	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act to amend Section 14136.8 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1932, as introduced, Hernandez. Medi-Cal: medical
transportation services.
   Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is
administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under
which health care services, including medical transportation
services, are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal
program is partially governed and funded under federal Medicaid
provisions.
   Existing law prohibits reimbursement from being made for medical
transportation services provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries when the
services are prescribed or ordered by a person who has a significant
beneficial interest in the medical transportation services rendered
unless the nature and extent of the interest have been disclosed, as
specified.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the
above-described 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 14136.8 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   14136.8.  No reimbursement shall be made for medical
transportation services provided pursuant to subdivision (i) of
Section 14132 when the services are prescribed or ordered by a person
who has a significant beneficial interest in the medical
transportation services rendered unless the nature and extent of that
interest have been disclosed in accordance with, and subject to,
Section 51466 of Title 22 of the California  Administrative
 Code  of Regulations .