Medi-Cal: individuals in county juvenile detention facilities.

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 services. Under existing law, children in juvenile facilities are ineligible to receive Medi-Cal benefits. This bill would, subject to the receipt of federal financial participation, provide that Medi-Cal benefits may be provided to individuals awaiting adjudication in county juvenile detention facilities if an individual is eligible to receive Medi-Cal benefits at the time he or she is admitted to the detention facility, or the individual is subsequently determined to be eligible for Medi-Cal benefits, and the county agrees to pay the state's share of Medi-Cal expenditures and the state's administrative costs for the above-described benefits. This bill would provide that the individual would have his or her Medi-Cal benefits continued until the date of the individual's adjudication. This bill would provide that the above-described provisions shall be implemented only if, to the extent that, and on the date that the department receives written confirmation from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that federal financial participation is available and the Director of Health Care Services executes a declaration stating that implementing the above-described provisions will not jeopardize federal funding, as specified. The bill would require the director to cease implementing the bill under prescribed circumstances.