SECTIONS 16996-16996.2 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 16996-16996.2

16996. For purposes of this chapter, "children's hospital" means
the following facilities:
(a) Valley Children's Hospital, Fresno.
(b) Earl and Loraine Miller Children's Hospital and Medical Center
of the Memorial Hospital of Long Beach, Long Beach.
(c) Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
(d) Children's Hospital Medical Center of Northern California,
Oakland.
(e) Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange.
(f) Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo
Alto.
(g) Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego.

16996.1. Funds appropriated to the department for the purposes of
this chapter shall be distributed as follows:
(a) The department shall compute the annual amount of financial
assistance available to each eligible children's hospital based upon
the ratio of each hospital's uncompensated care costs to the total
uncompensated care costs of all children's hospitals in the state.
(b) The department shall enter into a contract with each children'
s hospital receiving funding pursuant to this section and may make
quarterly payments provided that the hospital has complied with
subdivision (a) of Section 16996.2.
(c) Each children's hospital shall, as a condition of receiving
financial assistance under this section, submit reports to the
department, as required by the department, describing its use of
funds received pursuant to this section.

16996.2. (a) As a condition of receiving funds under Section
16996.1, a hospital shall provide medically necessary inpatient
treatment, including prescription drugs, for any condition detected
as part of a child health and disability prevention screen for any
child eligible for services under Section 104395 of the Health and
Safety Code. Inpatient hospital services shall be provided at no cost
upon referral by a child health and disability prevention program
provider, whether that provider is a physician, a county, or a
primary care clinic, unless the child is eligible to receive care
with no share of cost under the Medi-Cal program, is covered under
another publicly funded program, or the services are payable under
private insurance coverage.
(b) The department shall report to the Legislature on the
distribution and use of funds provided to hospitals under Section
16996.1 on an annual basis.