Medi-Cal: disease management programs: HIV/AIDS: disclosure of information: contractors.

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 persons receive health care services. Existing law requires the department to apply for a waiver of federal law to test the efficacy of providing a disease management benefit, as described, to specified beneficiaries under the Medi-Cal program. This bill would authorize the department to, in accordance with federal law, provide to an entity that contracts with the state to provide disease management services to persons with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) certain information in the department's possession that is necessary to identify and enroll persons who are eligible for the disease management program, provided that the department possesses a signed informed consent form, as described, from each person whose information is disclosed. This bill would impose certain requirements on the above-described contractors to protect the confidentiality of the data provided to the contractor by the department.