Medi-Cal: provider directory: skilled nursing facilities.

Healthcare

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Ochoa Bogh
Last action: 2025-10-03
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 309, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The exact date for implementation is not specified in the bill.

Medi-Cal Provider Directory: Skilled Nursing Facilities

This law requires Medi-Cal's online provider directory to include skilled nursing facilities as a searchable option and mandates annual updates.

What This Bill Does

Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to add skilled nursing facilities to the Medi-Cal managed care provider directory on its website.
Mandates that this addition be part of the health care options information provided to Medi-Cal applicants and beneficiaries.
Requires the department to annually update the provider directory to ensure accuracy.

Who It Names or Affects

Medi-Cal applicants and beneficiaries who need information about skilled nursing facilities.
The State Department of Health Care Services, which manages the Medi-Cal program.

Terms To Know

Medi-Cal: A health care program for low-income Californians funded by both federal and state governments.
Provider Directory: An online list of healthcare providers that accept Medi-Cal, including doctors and skilled nursing facilities.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify the exact date when the requirement to include skilled nursing facilities in the directory will take effect.
It is unclear how quickly the department must implement these changes after the law passes.

Bill History

2025-10-03 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 309, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-03 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-17 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-09-10 California Legislative Information
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2817.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2025-09-04 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-04 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2903.) Ordered to the Senate.
2025-07-03 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-07-02 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2).
2025-06-25 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-17 California Legislative Information
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-06-05 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-05-29 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2025-05-29 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1323.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-05-27 California Legislative Information
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1193.) (May 23).
2025-05-16 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-04-07 California Legislative Information
April 7 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-03-28 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing April 7.
2025-03-26 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 566.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-17 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing March 26.
2025-02-14 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2025-02-03 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
2025-01-30 California Legislative Information
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 250, Ochoa Bogh.
Medi-Cal: provider directory: skilled nursing facilities.
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, under fee-for-service or managed care delivery systems. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.
Existing federal Medicaid law requires the state to publish an online directory of physicians and, at state option, other providers, as specified. Existing state law sets forth Medi-Cal managed care provisions relating to a Medi-Cal applicant or beneficiary being informed of the health care options available regarding methods of receiving Medi-Cal benefits, including through certain provider directories. The department has administratively created an online provider directory through an internet website
known as Medi-Cal Managed Care Health Care Options.
This bill would require, as part of the health care options information posted by the department, in the provider directory that lists accepted Medi-Cal managed care plans, through the Medi-Cal Managed Care Health Care Options internet website and any other applicable mechanisms, that the directory include skilled nursing facilities as one of the available searchable provider types. The bill would require that this provision be implemented in conjunction with implementation of the above-described provisions. The bill would require the department to annually update that provider directory to ensure that information is accurate and readily accessible to the public.

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