Medi-Cal: juvenile inmates.

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 provisions. Existing federal law, with certain exceptions, excludes federal financial participation for medical care provided to any individual who is an inmate in a public institution. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to develop a process to allow counties to receive any available federal financial participation for acute inpatient hospital services and inpatient psychiatric services provided to juvenile inmates, as defined, who are admitted as inpatients in a medical institution, as prescribed. Existing law requires that the process be implemented in only those counties that elect to provide the nonfederal share of the state's administrative costs associated with the implementation of the process and the nonfederal share of the expenditures for those services provided. This bill would instead provide that the process developed be implemented in only those counties that elect to provide the county's pro rata portion of the nonfederal share of the state's administrative costs.