14640
WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE
SECTION 14640
14640. (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall allocate funds for the provision of mental health services to Medi-Cal eligible persons over 20 years of age to counties of over one million population that own and operate an acute psychiatric health facility, and in which the number of general acute care hospital psychiatric beds is 50 or less. Counties receiving allocations pursuant to this subdivision may contract with privately operated psychiatric health facilities, or with freestanding psychiatric hospitals which have been certified to provide care to Medi-Cal eligible persons. (b) Payments made from the allocation established under subdivision (a) shall be made according to state established reimbursement formulas for mental health services, and shall be funded through moneys initially transferred from the State Department of Health Services and subsequently appropriated to the State Department of Mental Health under Item 4440-101-001 of the annual Budget Act. (c) Allocations made pursuant to subdivision (a) shall not exceed the General Fund share of expenditures made under the Medi-Cal program for acute psychiatric inpatient care units in general acute care hospitals in the subject county during the 1989-90 state fiscal year. Payments shall be made only to the extent that those inpatient units have ceased operation in subsequent years and the capacity has not been replaced by capacity in other general acute care hospitals.