Medi-Cal: family planning services.

Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, the Medi-Cal program, pursuant to a federal waiver, administers the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program, to provide comprehensive clinical family planning services to any person who has a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level and who is eligible to receive those services. Existing law makes the Family PACT Program inoperative if the Department of Finance determines that the program is no longer cost effective, as specified. If the program becomes inoperative, existing law requires all persons who have received, or are eligible to receive, comprehensive clinical family planning services pursuant to the federal waiver to receive family planning services under the Medi-Cal program or the State-Only Family Planning Program, which is also established within the department. This bill would require the department, if there are any reductions in federal financial participation to the Family PACT Program, to submit to the Legislature a plan, within 60 days of the reduction, to ensure the sustainability of the program and other specified family planning services. The bill would require that the plan include an estimate of funding required to sustain the program and identification of nonstate or special funds that could be used to sustain program services.