Expanded access to primary care.

Existing law, under the Expanded Access to Primary Care program, requires the State Department of Health Care Services to select primary care clinics that are licensed as community clinics or free clinics, as defined, or those that are exempt from licensure due to their connection to a federally recognized Indian tribe or tribal organization, as specified, to be reimbursed for delivering medical services to program beneficiaries. Existing law requires a clinic applying for these funds to demonstrate that it meets certain conditions, including, but not limited to, providing specified services, and either being located in an area or a facility federally designated as a health professional shortage area, medically underserved area, or medically underserved population, or being a clinic in which at least 50% of the patients served are persons with incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, or both. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to one of these provisions.