Medi-Cal: long-term care reimbursement: ratesetting methodology.

Existing law provides for 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 Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act requires the department to implement a facility-specific ratesetting system, using a cost-based reimbursement rate methodology, and to update these rates annually. Under existing law, the methodology is required to reflect the sum of the projected cost of specified cost categories and passthrough costs, including a labor cost category. This bill would require labor costs to be determined by facility payroll data, submitted electronically to the department on a quarterly basis, as prescribed.