CA AB 220
passed one chamberMedi-Cal: subacute care services.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Description
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, 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. Existing law requires the department to establish a subacute care program in health facilities, as specified, to be available to patients in health facilities who meet subacute care criteria. Existing law requires that medical necessity for pediatric subacute care be substantiated by specified conditions. Existing regulations require a treatment authorization request for each admission to a subacute unit. This bill would require a provider seeking authorization for pediatric subacute or adult subacute care services pursuant to these provisions to submit with a treatment authorization request, including an electronic treatment authorization request, a specified form when requesting authorization for subacute care services. The bill would prohibit a Medi-Cal managed care plan from developing or using its own criteria to substantiate medical necessity for pediatric subacute or adult subacute care services with a condition or standard not enumerated in those forms. The bill would prohibit a Medi-Cal managed care plan from requiring a subsequent treatment authorization request upon a patient's return from a bed hold for acute hospitalization. The bill would authorize the department to impose sanctions on Medi-Cal managed care plans for violations of these provisions, as specified.
- Introduced
- 2025-06-16
- Status date
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- Latest action
- 2025-09-04 — In Senate. Held at Desk.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Action timeline
2025-01-08
Read first time. To print.
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2025-01-09
From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
2025-02-03
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-07
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-29
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1781.)
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2025-05-29
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-11
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-06-16
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-06-26
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-08
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-14
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
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2025-08-29
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-02
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-09-04
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2520.).
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2025-09-04
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-04
Ordered to the Senate.
2025-09-04
In Senate. Held at Desk.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-22 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Chen: yes
- Patel: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Krell: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Flora: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Addis: yes
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: other
AB 220 Jackson Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-29 · pass · 70-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Haney: yes
- Calderon: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hart: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Lee: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Flora: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Berman: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Addis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Patel: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Bains: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Krell: yes
- Davies: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Ta: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Alvarez: other
- Nguyen: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Chen: other
- Ward: other
- Bryan: other
- Solache: other
- Soria: other
- Tangipa: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-06-25 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Grove: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-07-14 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
Do pass
2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
Special Consent AB220 Jackson et al.
2025-09-04 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Stern: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Laird: yes
- Limón: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Allen: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Niello: yes
- Grove: yes
- Jones: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Strickland: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Becker: yes
- Reyes: other
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