Disability Rights California, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, National Health Law Program, Project Inform, and Western Center on Law and Poverty appreciate the opportunity to provide our input on the Department?s proposedregulations modifying the Two-Plan Model for Medi-Cal managed care. The proposed regulations allow the state to contract directly with an Alternate Health Care Service Plan (AHCSP), which according to our reading of the AHCSP definition encompasses only Kaiser Permanente.
