Medi-Cal: managed care.

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. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans. This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, provide that a Medi-Cal beneficiary for whom a conservator has been appointed under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act shall be exempt from mandatory enrollment in a managed care plan under the Medi-Cal program.