Medi-Cal: managed care plans.

(1) Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which health care services are provided to qualified, low-income persons through various health care delivery systems, including managed care pursuant to Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing federal regulations require a state that contracts with specified Medicaid managed care plans to develop and enforce network adequacy standards, to ensure that services covered under the Medicaid state plan are available and accessible to enrollees of specified Medicaid managed care…