SECTIONS 16960-16961 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 16960-16961

16960. (a) Twenty-eight and three-tenths percent, or that
percentage of the program account deriving from the Unallocated
Account of the fund in a fiscal year of each MISP county's allocation
under Section 16941, shall be expended consistent with Article 2
(commencing with Section 30121) of Chapter 2 of Part 13 of Division 2
of the Revenue and Taxation Code, at county discretion, to maintain
and enhance health care services provided on or after July 1, 1989,
for patients who cannot pay for those services which will not be
covered by private insurance or by a program funded in whole or in
part by the federal government. In those MISP counties where city
public health departments exist, the county shall give consideration
to those agencies in the use of funds received pursuant to this
section.
(b) Counties may expend up to 5 percent or fifty thousand dollars
($50,000), whichever is greater, of the funds received pursuant to
this section for costs related to the purchase of equipment and fixed
assets. However, no single expenditure may exceed ten thousand
dollars ($10,000).

16961. Services provided pursuant to this article include only
those health care services specified in Sections 14021 and 14132, and
former Division 1 (commencing with Section 100), and the
Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act as set forth in
subdivision (a) of Section 27, of the Health and Safety Code, which
are provided to patients who cannot afford to pay for those services,
and for whom payment will not be made through private coverage or by
any program funded in whole or in part by the federal government.