Richard Pan
- Democratic
Author
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, 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 and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, the Medi-Cal program administers the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program within the department to provide comprehensive clinical family planning services to a person with a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. Existing law requires reimbursement rates for office visits billed as comprehensive clinical family planning services by Family PACT providers or Medi-Cal providers to receive a rate augmentation equal to the weighted average of at least 80% of the amount that the federal Medicare program reimburses for the same or similar office visits. This bill would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature and any potential draw down of federal matching funds, require an office visit to a Family PACT provider or Medi-Cal provider for specified services for uninsured, income-eligible patients, or patients with health care coverage who have confidentiality concerns, who are not at risk of experiencing or causing an unintended pregnancy, and who are not in need of contraceptive services, to be reimbursed at the same rate as comprehensive clinical family planning services. The bill would require the department to issue a report to the Legislature on certain information such as the total number of persons treated under this provision and the total cost, among other things. Existing law, under specified conditions, includes in the benefits for Medi-Cal and the Family PACT program home test kits for sexually transmitted diseases and the laboratory testing required to process those kits that are deemed medically necessary or appropriate and ordered directly by a health care provider or furnished through a standing order for patient use based on clinical guidelines and individual patient health needs. Existing law requires that a home test kit be sent by the enrolled Medi-Cal or Family PACT provider to a laboratory. This bill would leave unspecified who would be required to send the home test kits. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 14132 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 1929 and SB 912 to be operative only if this bill, AB 1929, and SB 912 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
Vetoed by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 5420.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time and amended.
Ordered to third reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (August 11).
Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
August 10 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (June 28).
June 21 hearing postponed by committee.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 4. Page 3968.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3789.) (May 19).
Set for hearing May 19.
April 18 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing April 18.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3204.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing March 23.
From printer.
Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB1234 | HTML |
| 02/17/22 - Introduced | |
| 05/19/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/30/22 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/24/22 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/09/22 - Enrolled |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/21/22- Senate Health | |
| 04/15/22- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/19/22- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/23/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/24/22- Assembly Health | |
| 08/09/22- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/17/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/24/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/31/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 10/13/22- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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