SECTIONS 16950-16950.1 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 16950-16950.1

16950. (a) Twelve and two-tenths percent, or that portion of the
CHIP Account derived from the Physician Services Account in a fiscal
year, of each county's allocation under Section 16941 shall be used
for the support of or payment for uncompensated physician services.
(b) Up to 50 percent of the moneys provided pursuant to
subdivision (a) may be used by counties to pay for new contracts,
with an effective date no earlier than July 1989, with private
physicians for provision of emergency, obstetric, and pediatric
services in facilities which are not owned or operated by a county,
and where access to those services has been severely restricted. The
contracts may provide for partial or full reimbursement for physician
services provided to patients described in subdivision (f) of
Section 16952, and shall be subject to subdivision (d) of Section
16955.
(c) At least 50 percent of the moneys provided pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall be transferred to the county Physician Services
Account established in accordance with Section 16952 and
administered in accordance with Article 3.5 (commencing with Section
16951).

16950.1. The twenty-four million nine hundred fifteen thousand
dollars ($24,915,000) appropriated by Chapter 1331 of the Statutes of
1989 and the act amending this section in the 1990 portion of the
1989-90 Regular Session of the Legislature, to be allocated to
counties for uncompensated physician services shall be allocated to
MISP counties in accordance with percentages established in Section
16941. These funds shall be administered in accordance with
subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 16950.