California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 14105.8

WIC § 14105.8 Effective Jan 1, 2022Div. 9 · Part 3 · Ch. 7 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)The department may enter into contracts with manufacturers of enteral nutrition products that can be used as a therapeutic regimen to prevent serious disability or death in patients with medically diagnosed conditions that preclude the full use of regular food, on a bid or nonbid basis. The department shall maintain a list of those products for which contracts have been executed. For those contracts that generate rebates, those rebates shall be managed through the department’s drug rebate accounting system.

(b)(1) To ensure that the health needs of Medi-Cal beneficiaries are met, the department shall, when evaluating a decision to execute a contract, and when evaluating enteral nutrition products for retention on, addition to, or deletion from, the list of enteral nutrition products, consider all of the following criteria:

(A)The safety of the product.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 615, Sec. 447. (AB 474) Effective January 1, 2022. Operative January 1, 2023, pursuant to Sec. 463 of Stats. 2021, Ch. 615.