Bill Text: CA AB164 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medi-Cal: cards.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB164 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB164-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 164	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hayashi

                        JANUARY 20, 2011

   An act to amend Section 14017.8 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 164, as introduced, Hayashi. Medi-Cal: cards.
   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. The
Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid
provisions. Under existing law, the department is required to issue
each person who is eligible for Medi-Cal, as specified, with a card
certifying his or her status, identification number, expiration date,
and his or her entitlements, insofar as these do not require
specific prior authorization.
   This bill would require the department to implement a system
whereby health care personnel with access to a person's Medi-Cal card
are made aware if the person has previously accessed mental health
services through the Medi-Cal system.
   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 14017.8 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   14017.8.   (a)    Each person eligible under
Section 14005.1 and each person eligible under Section 14005.4 or
14005.7 who is certified eligible shall be provided, by the
department, with a Medi-Cal card certifying his or her status,
identification number, expiration date  ,  and his or her
entitlements, insofar as these do not require specific prior
authorization. The department shall determine the form of the
Medi-Cal card. The cards shall be for a term as determined by the
department and, unless canceled for cause, shall entitle individuals
to care and service as indicated. Cause for cancellation shall exist
when the person dies, loses state residence, is found to be
ineligible, or has been issued a new Medi-Cal card. 
   (b) The department shall implement a system whereby health care
personnel with access to the Medi-Cal card provided to an eligible
person pursuant to subdivision (a) are made aware if the person has
previously accessed mental health services through the Medi-Cal
system.