Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates.

Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the State Department of Health Care Services develop Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for clinical laboratory or laboratory services in accordance with specified criteria. Existing law exempts from compliance with a specified regulation laboratory providers reimbursed pursuant to any payment reductions implemented pursuant to these provisions for 21 months following the date of implementation of this reduction, and requires the department to adopt emergency regulations by July 1, 2014. This bill would instead exempt these laboratory providers from compliance with the specified regulation until July 1, 2015, and would require the department to adopt emergency regulations by June 30, 2016. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.