CHAPTER 3.5. State Administration of Health Care Services and Medical Assistance [10720. - 10752.]
Chapter 3.5 added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.
§§ 10720–10752 · 23 sections
ARTICLE 1. Organization §§ 10720–10728 · 9 sections
- § 10720 As used in this chapter, “department” means the State Department of Health Services, and “director” means the State Director of Health Services.
- § 10721 The director shall administer Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) and Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200) of Part 3 of this division and any other…
- § 10722 The State Department of Health Services succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the State…
- § 10723 The State Department of Health Services shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations,…
- § 10724 All officers and employees of the Director of Health and the Director of Benefit Payments who on the operative date of this section are serving in the state…
- § 10725 The director may adopt regulations, orders, or standards of general application to implement, interpret, or make specific the law enforced by the department,…
- § 10726 All regulations heretofore adopted by the Director of the State Department of Benefit Payments which relate to payment, accounting, auditing and collection…
- § 10727 Except as otherwise provided by law, for purposes of the Health and Safety Code and this code, and any regulations adopted thereunder, after June 1, 1996,…
- § 10728 (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, for purposes of this code and the Health and Safety Code, and any regulations adopted thereunder, “University of…
ARTICLE 2. Powers and Duties §§ 10740–10752 · 14 sections
- § 10740 It is hereby declared that provision for health care services and medical assistance in this code is a matter of statewide concern. The State Department of…
- § 10741 The department shall investigate, examine and make reports upon the public officers who are in any way responsible for the administration of public funds used…
- § 10742 The department shall advise public officers regarding the administration of health care services and medical assistance by public agencies throughout the…
- § 10743 In administering any funds appropriated or made available to the department for disbursement through the counties for welfare purposes, the department shall…
- § 10743.5 It is the intent of the Legislature that, if the department seeks a waiver for any experimental, pilot, or demonstration project in the 1995–96 fiscal year…
- § 10744 If the director considers a county director to be failing, in a substantial manner, to comply with any provision of this code or any regulation pertaining to…
- § 10745 The department shall cause to be published and made available for sale to the public, at the cost of publishing, all of its rules and regulations relating to:…
- § 10746 When the department causes to be published for public distribution informational pamphlets and related materials relating to public assistance programs…
- § 10747 Copies of all laws relating to any form of public social service for which state aid is granted to counties, and over the administration of which the…
- § 10748 The department may act as the agent or representative of or cooperate with the federal government in any matters within the scope of the functions of the…
- § 10749 The department may join associations of social welfare agencies having as their purpose the interchanging or supplying of information relating to the technique…
- § 10750 The functions of the department may include the administration and the supervision of the administration of health care services and medical assistance within…
- § 10751 The department, with the cooperation of the State Department of Social Services and the Employment Development Department, shall develop a homemaker and home…
- § 10752 The department shall, by March 1, 2017, in coordination with the Department of Finance, notify the Legislature of the fiscal impact on the Medi-Cal program…