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Modifies the state's reimbursement methodology for setting payment rates for long-term care psychiatric hospitals. Specifically, this amendment increase the payment rate.
This amendment will extend, for an additional year, augmentation payments to emergency medical air transportation providers for services rendered during State Fiscal Year 2016-17.
Adds the juvenile parole population as a target group eligible for Targeted Case Management services in order to facilitate needed medical, social, educational, and other services while ensuring freedom of choice of providers.
akes technical revisions to update the hospital participation criteria for supplemental reimbursement to outpatient departments of public hospitals specified requirements under California Welfare and Institutions Code 14105.96.
Adds two Alameda Health System hospitals - Alameda Hospital and San Leandro Hospital - to the list of government-operated hospitals receiving supplemental reimbursement for uncompensated costs of providing physician and non-physician practitioner professional services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries.
Updates the fee schedule rates for adult family homes, independent providers, and home care agencies, and revamps the remibursement methodology for nursing facilities.
Removes language referring to the "live-in" program and "24-hour availability" of homecare workers and personal support workers as well as other technical revisions to align with program changes enacted to address requirements of the Federal Department of Labor regulations.
Updates the clinic participation criteria to reflect the State law creation of hospital authorities to govern the designated public hospitals of Alameda Health System and Kern Medical Center.