California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 5 - California Children’s Services

  • Section 123800.
    This article shall be known and may be cited as the Robert W. Crown California Children’s Services Act.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8....
  • Section 123805.
    The department shall establish and administer a program of services for physically defective or handicapped persons under the age of 21 years, in cooperation with...
  • Section 123810.
    The department succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction heretofore exercised by the State Department of Benefit Payments with respect...
  • Section 123815.
    The department shall have possession and control of all records, papers, equipment, and supplies held for the benefit or use of the Director of Benefit...
  • Section 123820.
    All officers and employees of the Director of Benefit Payments who on July 1, 1978, are serving in the state civil service, other than as...
  • Section 123822.
    All claims for services provided under this article shall be submitted to the state fiscal intermediary for payment no later than January 1, 1999. The...
  • Section 123825.
    It is the intent of the Legislature through this article to provide, to the extent practicable, for the necessary medical services required by physically handicapped...
  • Section 123830.
    “Handicapped child,” as used in this article, means a physically defective or handicapped person under the age of 21 years who is in need of...
  • Section 123835.
    (a) The department shall keep the California Children’s Services (CCS) program abreast of advances in medical science, leading to the inclusion of other handicapping conditions and...
  • Section 123840.
    “Services,” as used in this article, means any or all of the following:(a)  Expert diagnosis. (b)  Medical treatment. (c)  Surgical treatment. (d)  Hospital care. (e)...
  • Section 123845.
    “California Children’s Services Program,” as used in this article, means the program of services established and operated pursuant to this article.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch....
  • Section 123850.
    (a) The board of supervisors of each county shall designate the county department of public health or the county department of social welfare as the designated...
  • Section 123853.
    (a) The department may enter into contracts with one or more manufacturers on a negotiated or bid basis as the purchaser, but not the dispenser or...
  • Section 123855.
    The department or designated county agency shall cooperate with, or arrange through, local public or private agencies and providers of medical care to seek out...
  • Section 123860.
    In accordance with applicable regulations of the United States Children’s Bureau, the department and designated county agencies shall provide a diagnosis for handicapped children. Within...
  • Section 123865.
    If the parents or estate of a handicapped child is wholly or partly unable to furnish for the child necessary services, the parents or guardian...
  • Section 123870.
    (a) The department shall establish standards of financial eligibility for treatment services under the California Children’s Services Program (CCS program).(1) Financial eligibility for treatment services under this...
  • Section 123872.
    In addition to the other eligibility requirements set forth in this article, prior to being determined financially eligible for services under this article, the applicant...
  • Section 123875.
    If the California Children’s Service medical therapy unit conference team, based on a medical referral recommending medically necessary occupational or physical therapy in accordance with...
  • Section 123880.
    The department and designated agencies shall not deny eligibility or aid under the California Children’s Services Program because an otherwise eligible person is receiving treatment...
  • Section 123885.
    Panel members as set forth in Section 123880 shall be board-certified and have expertise in the care of children.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec....
  • Section 123890.
    (a)  The state department shall not deny a hospital’s request to provide treatment to burn victims who are eligible under the California Children’s Services Program...
  • Section 123895.
    The designated agency shall determine the financial eligibility of the family according to standards established by the department. The agency will also determine if the...
  • Section 123900.
    (a) Beginning September 1, 1991, in addition to any other standards of eligibility pursuant to this article, each family with a child otherwise eligible to receive...
  • Section 123905.
    A county of under 200,000 population, administering its county program jointly with the department, shall forward to the department a statement certifying the family of...
  • Section 123910.
    The department may, without the possession of a county certification, pay the expenses for services required by any physically handicapped child out of any funds...
  • Section 123915.
    When the department provides, or arranges for the provision of, services to physically handicapped children directly, as in the case of nonresident physically handicapped children,...
  • Section 123920.
    Upon the request of another state or of a federal agency, the department may pay the expenses of services required by any physically handicapped child...
  • Section 123925.
    The department and designated agencies shall maintain surveillance and supervision over the services provided handicapped children under authorization by the program to assure a high...
  • Section 123929.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and Section 14133.05 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, California Children’s Services Program services provided pursuant to this...
  • Section 123930.
    This article does not authorize any treatment service without the written consent of a parent or guardian except as a person under 18 years of...
  • Section 123935.
    A handicapped child shall not be denied services pursuant to this article because he or she has an intellectual disability.(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 457,...
  • Section 123940.
    (a) (1) Annually, the board of supervisors shall appropriate a sum of money for services for handicapped children of the county, including diagnosis, treatment, and therapy services...
  • Section 123945.
    For those counties with a total appropriation of county funds not exceeding one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000), and upon the expenditure of the county...
  • Section 123950.
    The designated county agency shall administer the medical-therapy program in local public schools for physically handicapped children. As provided in Section 123940, the state and...
  • Section 123955.
    (a) The state and the counties shall share in the cost of administration of the California Children’s Services program at the local level.(b) (1) The director shall adopt...
  • Section 123960.
    The department shall require of participating local governments the provision of program data including, but not limited to, the number of children treated, the kinds...
  • Section 123965.
    A handicapped child placed for adoption, determined to be financially eligible for care at the time of placement, shall not be denied services pursuant to...
  • Section 123970.
    The department and the placing adoption agency at the time of placement shall notify all prospective adopting parents in writing, that funds received under the...
  • Section 123975.
    (a)  The department, in consultation with selected representatives of participating neonatal intensive care units, shall establish a system to screen all newborns and infants for...
  • Section 123980.
    If the recipient of services provided by the California Children’s Services Program, his or her guardian, conservator, personal representative, estate, or survivors, or any of...
  • Section 123982.
    Except as otherwise provided by law, the amount of any judgment, award, or settlement relating to a medical condition for which treatment services have been...
  • Section 123985.
    (a)  A bone marrow transplant for the treatment of cancer shall be reimbursable under this article, when all of the following conditions are met: (1)...
  • Section 123990.
    The department shall adopt regulations to implement the amendments of this article in 1991. The adoption of the regulations shall be deemed to be an...
  • Section 123995.
    (a)  The department shall require all applicants to the program who may be eligible for cash grant assistance or for Medi-Cal benefits to apply for...

Last modified: October 22, 2018