Health care programs: provider reimbursement rates.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care benefits. Existing law also requires the department to administer various health programs, including the California Children's Services Program, Genetically Handicapped Person's Program, Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, State-Only Family Planning Program, and Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Waiver Program. Existing law requires provider rates of payment for services under these programs to be identical to the rates of payment for the same service performed by the same provider type pursuant to the Medi-Cal program, except, until January 1, 2011, with regard to hospital inpatient rates of payment, which existing law requires to be 90% of Medi-Cal hospital interim rates of payment, as provided. This bill would extend the provisions that would be repealed on January 1, 2011, until January 1, 2014.