Medi-Cal: prepaid health plans.

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 benefits. Existing law authorizes the department to contract with one or more prepaid health plans, in accordance with specified procedures, to provide benefits to eligible persons who are enrolled in these health plans. Pursuant to these provisions, existing law requires the director, if he or she makes a finding of noncompliance or for other good cause, as described, to terminate a contract with a prepaid health plan or a Medi-Cal managed health care plan in accordance with specified procedures, or, in lieu of termination, to take one or more specified sanctions against the contractor. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.