{"data":{"id":"us-ca/wic-14165.10","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"WIC § 14165.10","heading":"","body":"The commission or department may direct independent studies, to include, but not be limited to, the following objectives:\n(a) The development of a method of private medical insurance coverage of the Medi-Cal program as to those Medi-Cal beneficiaries whose medical costs reach a catastrophic level or who become chronically ill.\n(b) The potential for Medi-Cal payment of medical coverage premiums for the various classifications of Medi-Cal beneficiaries.\n(c) For each classification of Medi-Cal beneficiaries, the provision of specified medical benefits on the basis of subsidization by the beneficiaries through the payment of premiums.\n(d) A comparison of Medi-Cal benefits with the medical coverage available to most Californians not covered by Medi-Cal, along with analysis and recommendations concerning alternative benefit packages for Medi-Cal.\n(e) The determination of whether health care plans providing services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries should offer less than the full range of Medi-Cal benefits.\n(f) The development of alternative standards for beneficiary eligibility and copayment under Medi-Cal.\n(g) The development of a method of response to temporary deficits in the Medi-Cal program that will both control expenditures and, to the extent possible, preserve the availability to beneficiaries of essential health services.","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 5.1. California Medical Assistance Commission [14165. - 14165.11.]"],"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":"10c86ad616fb1777574b0a10858168e84c23fed03e0d1c38cce58f8bf9fe905c","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/wic-14165.95","next":"us-ca/wic-14165.11"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}