(a) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, each year, by no later than January 10 and concurrently with the release of the May Revision, the State Department of Health Care Services shall provide the fiscal committees of the Legislature with an estimate package for the Every Woman Counts Program. This estimate package shall include all significant assumptions underlying the estimate for the Every Woman Counts Program’s current-year and budget-year proposals, and shall contain concise information identifying applicable estimate components, such as caseload; a breakout of costs, including, but not limited to, clinical service activities, including office visits and consults, screening mammograms, diagnostic mammograms, diagnostic breast procedures, case management, and other clinical services; policy changes; contractor information; General Fund, special fund, and federal fund information; and other assumptions necessary to support the estimate.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, each year, the State Department of Health Care Services shall provide the fiscal and appropriate policy committees of the Legislature with biannual updates on caseload, estimated expenditures, and related program monitoring data for the Every Woman Counts Program. These updates shall be provided no later than February 28 and August 31 of each year. The purpose of the updates is to provide the Legislature with the most recent information on the program, and shall include a breakdown of expenditures for each six-month period for clinical service activities, including, but not limited to, office visits and consults, screening mammograms, diagnostic mammograms, diagnostic breast procedures, case management, and other clinical services. This subdivision supersedes the requirements of Section 169 of Chapter 717 of the Statutes of 2010 (SB 853).
(c) Commencing with the 2017–18 fiscal year, expenditures for the Every Woman Counts Program included in the department’s budget for services provided on or after July 1, 2017, shall be charged against the appropriation for the fiscal year in which the billing is paid.
(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 52, Sec. 13. (SB 97) Effective July 10, 2017.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018