Medi-Cal: HIV drug treatment: developmental services: provider reimbursement.

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. Existing law creates the continuously appropriated Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund, for the purposes of paying Medi‑Cal providers, providers of drug treatment services for persons infected with HIV, and providers of services for the developmentally disabled, on and after July 1 and before September 1, of the fiscal year for which a budget has not yet been enacted or there is a deficiency in the Medi‑Cal budget in any fiscal year, and transfers or appropriates, for each fiscal year in which these payments are necessary, up to $1,000,000,000 from the General Fund, in the form of loans, and $1,000,000,000 from the Federal Trust Fund, to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund. This bill would increase, to an amount not to exceed $2,500,000,000, the annual appropriation from the General Fund and from the Federal Trust Fund to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund. By increasing the amount transferred into a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.