{"data":{"id":"us-ca/wic-14124.7","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"WIC § 14124.7","heading":"","body":"(a) No long-term health care facility participating as a provider under the Medi-Cal program shall seek to evict out of the facility or, effective January 1, 2002, transfer within the facility, any resident as a result of the resident changing his or her manner of purchasing the services from private payment or Medicare to Medi-Cal, except that a facility may transfer a resident from a private room to a semiprivate room if the resident changes to Medi-Cal payment status. This section also applies to residents who have made a timely and good faith application for Medi-Cal benefits and for whom an eligibility determination has not yet been made.\n(b) This section does not apply to any resident of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility, receiving respite care services, as defined in Section 1418.1 of the Health and Safety Code, unless it is already being provided through a Medicaid waiver program pursuant to Section 1396n of Title 42 of the United States Code, or is already allowed as a covered service by the Medi-Cal program.\n(c) Nothing in this section shall limit a facility’s ability to transfer a resident within a facility, as provided by law, because of a change in a resident’s health care needs or if the bed retention would result in there being no available Medicare-designated beds within a facility.\n(d) This section shall be implemented only to the extent it does not conflict with federal law.","path":["Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC","DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES [10000. - 18999.98.]","PART 3. AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE [11000. - 15771.]","CHAPTER 7. Basic Health Care [14000. - 14199.97.]","ARTICLE 3. Administration [14100. - 14124.16.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"8c96d491c864de8b6525bc1c3d05d930ff8a5a60b7294928895fefbefc023fef","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/wic-14124.6","next":"us-ca/wic-14124.10"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}