The California Department of Health Care Services recently announced it would delay payments for up to three weeks in June so that those claims are paid out of the 2013-2014 fiscal year budget. This “checkwrite” delay will impact providers as outlined below.

Free-Standing Nursing Facility Level B and Free-Standing (Adult) Subacute Nursing Facility Level B Provider Payments

All Free-Standing Nursing Facility Level B and Free-Standing (Adult) Subacute Nursing Facility Level B provider payments scheduled for warrant dates June 13, June 20 and June 27, 2013, will be held until warrant date July 5, 2013, assuming a July 1, 2013, enactment of the 2013 – 2014 state budget.

Fee-for-Service Provider Payments

Payments to providers who render services through Medi-Cal funded programs that are scheduled for the June 20, 2013, checkwrite will be deferred to July 5, 2013, assuming a July 1, 2013, enactment of the 2013 – 2014 state budget. Programs impacted:

• Medi-Cal (which includes Family PACT)
• Child Health and Disability Prevention
• Abortion

 Fee-for-Service Provider Payments (Including State Only Programs)

Payments to providers who render services through Medi-Cal and state funded programs that are scheduled for the June 27, 2013, checkwrite will be deferred to July 5, 2013, assuming a July 1, 2013, enactment of the 2013 – 2014 state budget. Programs impacted:

• Medi-Cal (which includes Family PACT)
• Child Health and Disability Prevention
• Abortion
• Healthy Families
• California Children’s Services (CCS-State only, CCS-Healthy Families, CCS-Medi-Cal)
• Genetically Handicapped Persons Program (GHPP-State only, GHPP-Medi-Cal)

Payments to the Every Woman Counts program are excluded from all June checkwrite holds.