14021. (Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 36, Sec. 72.)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, health care shall include the following mental health and substance use disorder services:
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(a) Mental health services provided by a county or a city.
(b) Mental health services provided in a community mental health service or in a community mental health center organized under the federal Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963. No amount shall be paid for that portion of the total costs of care and services in a federally funded community mental health center which may be compensated by the United States government under the federal Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963. No amount shall be paid to a community mental health service or a federally funded community mental health center unless the community mental health service or the federally funded community mental health center participates in a county or city mental health performance contract pursuant to Section 5650.
(c) Drug Medi-Cal outpatient substance use disorder services under the jurisdiction of the department provided by a county provider certified under this chapter or a private provider certified under this chapter which has an approved contract with the county or with the department to provide covered substance use disorder services.
(d) Inpatient hospital services in an institution for mental diseases to persons of all ages, provided that the institution for mental diseases is certified as a psychiatric hospital under Title XVIII of the federal Social Security Act and regulations issued thereunder. Notwithstanding Section 14157, no money in the State Health Care Deposit Fund shall be expended for the purposes of this section unless the Legislature specifically appropriates money for the purposes of this section. The amendment of this subdivision enacted at the 1972 Regular Session of the Legislature does not constitute a change in, but is declaratory of, the preexisting law.
(e) (1) Other diagnostic, screening, preventive, or remedial rehabilitative services for the maximum restoration of an individual to the best possible functional level.
(2) Paragraph (1) includes any medical or remedial services provided in a facility, home, or other setting, that are recommended by a physician or other licensed practitioner of the healing arts within the scope of his or her practice under state law.