§ 14450.5. — 14450.5. (Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 31, Sec. 2.)

(a)
No contract between the department and a prepaid health plan that is contracting with, or that is governed, owned, or operated by, a county board of supervisors, shall be approved or renewed unless the standards set forth in Section 1374.16 of the Health and Safety Code are met. The treatment plan developed pursuant to Section 1374.16 of the Health and Safety Code shall be consistent with federal and state medicaid requirements. Nothing in Section 1374.16 of the Health and Safety Code is intended to alter or abrogate any other requirements of federal or state law with regard to medicaid.
(b)
The requirements of this section shall apply to all managed care plan contracts entered into under any of the following:
(1)
The act that added this subdivision.
(2)
Any of the following provisions of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000).
(A)
Article 2.7 (commencing with Section 14087.3).
(B)
Article 2.9 (commencing with Section 14088).
(C)
Article 2.91 (commencing with Section 14089).
(3)
Article 7 of Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14490).

Legislative History

Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 31, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1999.