Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Pilot Program.

Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2014, the Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Pilot Program in the State Department of Public Health, which authorizes up to 6 eligible acute care hospitals that are licensed to provide cardiac catheterization laboratory service in California, and that meet prescribed, additional criteria to perform scheduled, elective primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) , as defined, for eligible patients. Existing law establishes an advisory oversight committee to oversee, monitor, and make recommendations to the department concerning the pilot program. Existing law also imposes various reporting requirements on the advisory oversight committee and the department, including recommendations as to whether the pilot program should be continued or terminated and whether elective PCI without onsite cardiac surgery should be continued in California. This bill would extend the pilot program until January 1, 2015, and would require the oversight committee to conduct its final report by November 30, 2013. The bill would require the department, within 90 days of receiving the final report from the oversight committee, to prepare and submit its report to the Legislature on the initial results of the Elective PCI Pilot Program. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.