14005.70. (Added by Stats. 2013, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 5, Sec. 14.)

(a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall ensure that its contracts with a health care service plan or health insurer to provide Medi-Cal managed care coverage meet all of the following requirements:

(1) A health care service plan or health insurer shall provide coverage in its bridge plan product to its Medi-Cal managed care enrollees and other individuals that meet the requirements in paragraph (2) if the Medi-Cal managed care plan offers a bridge plan product pursuant to Section 100504.5 of the Government Code.

(2) Only the following individuals shall be eligible to enroll in the Medi-Cal managed care plan’s bridge plan product if the Medi-Cal managed care plan offers a bridge plan product:

(A) An individual who is determined to be eligible for the Exchange and whose Medi-Cal coverage or Healthy Families coverage was terminated. In implementing this subparagraph, the Exchange shall adopt processes to ensure that individuals have no gap in coverage to the greatest extent possible. The Exchange shall request approval from the federal government to limit enrollment under this subparagraph to individuals with a family income at or below 250 percent of the federal poverty level.

(B) Other members of the modified adjusted gross income household, as defined in Section 100501 of the Government Code, in which there are Medi-Cal or Healthy Families enrollees.

(C) A parent or caretaker relative of a child on Medi-Cal. The Exchange may delay the operative date of this subparagraph until it has the operational capability to implement this subparagraph, but no later than January 1, 2015.

(3) Provide all of the following:

(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (2), an individual who is eligible to enroll in a bridge plan product under subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) shall only be eligible to enroll in a bridge plan product offered by the health care service plan or health insurer through which the individual was enrolled prior to eligibility for a bridge plan product as either a Medi-Cal beneficiary or as a Healthy Families enrollee.

(B) An individual who is eligible to enroll in a bridge plan product under subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) shall only be eligible to enroll in a bridge plan product offered by the health care service plan or health insurer through which the member of the household was enrolled as a Medi-Cal beneficiary or as a Healthy Families enrollee.

(C) The Exchange shall seek federal approval to allow individuals described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) the option to enroll in a different bridge plan product if the individual’s primary care provider is included in the contracted network of the different bridge plan product and either of the following applies to the bridge plan product for which the individual is eligible: