Medi-Cal: managed care.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Services, under which qualified low-income persons are provided with health care services. Existing law allows the Director of Health Care Services to contract with any qualified individual, organization, or entity, including counties, to provide services to, or arrange for or case manage the care of, Medi-Cal beneficiaries. Existing law authorizes the department to establish pilot programs, as prescribed, for the establishment of reimbursement methodologies for local initiative and commercial plans providing services under the above-mentioned contracts. This bill would make technical, nonsubsantive changes to these provisions.