Adult day health care.

Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which health care services are provided to qualified, low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law provides, to the extent permitted by federal law, that adult day health care (ADHC) be excluded from coverage under the Medi-Cal program on the first day of the first calendar month following 90 days after the effective date of the act that added that provision or on the first day of the first calendar month following 60 days after the date the department secures all necessary federal approvals to implement that provision, whichever is later. This bill would, instead, require that ADHC be excluded from coverage under the Medi-Cal program on November 1, 2011. This bill would appropriate $1,000 to the State Department of Health Care Services for administration. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.