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The Honorable Jim Wood

Chair, Assembly Health Committee

State Capitol, Room 6005

Sacramento, CA 95814

Re: AB 2428 (Gonzalez Fletcher) – SUPPORT

Dear Assemblymember Wood:

On behalf of [INSERT ORGANIZATION NAME], I would like to urge your support for AB 2428 (Gonzalez-Fletcher) which will soon be heard by your committee. [INSERT SENTENCE ABOUT YOUR ORGANIZATION].

For California’s community health centers (CHCs), the extensive licensing process is commonly one of the most difficult barriers to increasing access to care. AB 2053 (Gonzalez-Fletcher), signed by Governor Brown in 2016, created the consolidated license process for CHCs. This process allows a CHC to include additional physical locations, within ½ mile of the licensed facility to a single consolidated license, for the purposes of consolidating administrative functions. By doing so, this bill paved the path for health centers to better serve their communities, respond to changing service needs, and expand services. Upon implementation, several challenges were identified which may inhibit or limit the benefits originally intended for the consolidated license process.

AB 2428 will work in concert with the previous legislation to ensure optimal implementation of the consolidated license process and remove barriers that constrain CHC participation. This legislation would allow a CHC to share additional administrative functions, including billing the prospective payment system (PPS) under a shared rate, or to establish a separate PPS rate for the consolidated site, at the health center discretion. It will allow the new site to be enrolled with Medi-Cal through the existing site and create parallel permissions for consolidated-like sites that were established prior to AB 2053 in 2016.In doing so, this bill will pave the path for patients throughout California to have greater access to care. [INSERT SENTENCE ABOUT HOW YOUR HEALTH CENTER WILL USE THE CONSOLDIATED LICENSE TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO CARE].

For these reasons, [INSERT ORGANIZATION NAME], firmly supports AB 2428 (Gonzalez-Fletcher), and we respectfully request your aye vote when it comes before you in committee.

Sincerely,

[INSERT SIGNATURE, TITLE of INDIVIDUAL AUTHORIZED TO REPRESENT ORGANIZATION]

Cc:Members, Assembly Health Committee

Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher