Official Summary Text
AB 2665, as amended, Tangipa.
Health and human services: approved plans or waivers: notifications.
Medi-Cal funding: County of Inyo.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is in part governed by, and funded pursuant to, federal Medicaid program provisions.
Under existing law, a critical access hospital is eligible for supplemental payments for Medi-Cal covered outpatient services rendered to Medi-Cal eligible persons, as specified.
This bill would appropriate
$5,500,000 from the General Fund to the department for the purpose of providing supplemental payments for services covered under the Medi-Cal program, with the stated intent that these payments facilitate the maintenance of operations of the health care system in the County of Inyo and thereby prevent the closure of hospitals within the county.
The bill would require that, of the appropriated moneys, $2,500,000 be distributed to the Northern Inyo Healthcare District and $3,000,0000 be distributed to the Southern Inyo Healthcare District. Under the bill, these payments would be in addition to any supplemental payments received by a hospital within the county pursuant to the above-described provision regarding critical access hospitals.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Inyo.
Existing law requires a department within the California Health and Human Services Agency that has received approval of an operational state plan by a federal agency, or that has applied and has been approved for a waiver from a federal law or regulation, to make any and all approved
plans and waivers available to the public by publishing a hyperlink to that information on the homepage of the department’s internet website.
This bill would require the above-described department to expeditiously make an approved plan or waiver available to the public. The bill would require the agency to promptly notify the legislative health committees about an approved plan or waiver.