BILL NUMBER: AB 2645	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 5912 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to mental health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2645, as introduced, Chesbro. Mental health: skilled nursing
facilities: reimbursement rate.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health
facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, by the State
Department of Public Health. Existing law requires the State
Department of Health Care Services to contract with skilled nursing
facilities that have been designated by the State Department of
Mental Health as institutions for mental disease to provide services
to the residents. Under existing law, as log as contracts require
institutions for mental disease to continue to be licensed as skilled
nursing facilities, they shall be reimbursed at a specified rate,
subject to an annual increase of 4.7 percent.
   This bill would, on and after July 1, 2010, set the reimbursement
rate for services in institutions for mental disease at the same rate
as was in effect on July 1, 2009.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 5912 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   5912.   (a)    As long as contracts require
institutions for mental disease to continue to be licensed and
certified as skilled nursing facilities by the State Department of
 Public  Health  Services  , they shall be
reimbursed for basic services at the rate established by the State
Department of Health  Care  Services. Except as provided in
this section, reimbursement rates for services in institutions for
mental  diseases   disease  shall be the
same as the rates in effect on July 31, 2004. Effective July 1, 2005,
through June 30, 2008, the reimbursement rate for institutions for
mental disease shall increase by 6.5 percent annually. Effective July
1, 2008, the reimbursement rate for institutions for mental disease
shall increase by 4.7 percent annually. 
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), on and after July 1, 2010,
the reimbursement rate for services in institutions for mental
disease shall be the same as the rates in effect on July 1, 2009.