Medi-Cal: Administrative Claiming process.

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. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law establishes an Administrative Claiming process under which local governmental agencies and local educational consortia contract with the department for the purpose of obtaining federal matching funds to assist with the performance of administrative activities relating to the Medi-Cal program. Under existing law, a participating local governmental agency may include a Native American Indian tribe, a tribal organization, or a subgroup of a Native American Indian tribe or tribal organization. This bill would authorize a Native American Indian tribe, a tribal organization, or a subgroup of a Native American Indian tribe or tribal organization to claim, as a Medi-Cal Administrative Activity, facilitating Medi-Cal applications, which includes, but is not limited to, using the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention System. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.