Medi-Cal: moratoria on enrollment of providers.

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 authorizes the department to implement a moratorium on the enrollment of providers in the Medi-Cal program under specified circumstances. This bill would require the department to exempt a clinical laboratory provider from a moratorium on the enrollment of clinical laboratories if the provider has an existing relationship with the Medi-Cal program as a provider of benefits through a contract with a Medi-Cal managed care plan. The bill would also make other technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.