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Under AB 752 by Assembly member Mervyn Dymally (D-Compton), the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act will be extended through fiscal year 2009-2010 and will create new distribution requirements for federal funds to public hospitals. The program is intended to maximize federal funding for Medi-Cal (Bill Text, 4/10).
AB 993 by Assembly member Greg Aghazarian (R-Stockton) institutes a 90-day deadline for the Department of Public Health to review applications for home health agency licenses and conduct a certification survey. The survey must be forwarded to CMS (Bill Text, 9/30).