Article 8. Consolidation Of Contracts of California Health And Safety Code >> Division 101. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 8.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of state law or any division in the allocation of funds in the Budget Act, the department may, within its authority to contract with a provider for the provision of health services, enter into a single contractual instrument encompassing services in any number of health services subject areas, limited to the following: primary care, maternal and child health, woman, infant, and child care, family planning, rural health services, migrant and seasonal farmworker care, child health and disability prevention, genetic disease, hypertension, grants-in-aid, American Indian health, adult health care, and dental care, except that federally funded programs requiring separate accounting and reporting shall preserve the separate accounting and reporting for contracts executed pursuant to this article.

To the extent that a reduction in administrative costs would thereby result, any agency or agencies authorized to conduct audits under any state health services program that is the subject of a contract with a provider shall conform the scope of any audit to include other health services programs encompassed by the contract for which the agency or agencies have authority to conduct audits.

Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, any contract under this article shall be subject to review and approval by the Department of General Services.

No provision of this article shall be construed to prohibit the department from providing under any contract entered into under this article for reimbursement on the basis of negotiated rates, capitation, fee-for-service, or any other method designed to reduce administrative costs.

In order to implement this article, the department may establish a single account wherein all funds for eligible programs may be deposited for purposes of contracting in a single form.