(a) In an effort to determine whether childrenâs access to, and utilization of, vision care services can be increased by providing vision care services at schools, the department shall establish a pilot program in the County of Los Angeles that enables school districts to allow students enrolled in Medi-Cal managed care plans to receive vision care services at the schoolsite through the use of a mobile vision service provider. The vision care services available under this pilot program are limited to vision examinations and providing eyeglasses. (b) The Medi-Cal managed care plans in the County of Los Angeles shall jointly identify and develop standards and participation criteria that the participating mobile vision service provider shall meet in order to be deemed qualified to participate in the pilot program, in consultation with the department and consistent with any applicable federal requirements governing Medicaid managed care contracts. In the event the Medi-Cal managed care plans have not developed standards and participation criteria by January 1, 2015, or by the scheduled start date of the pilot program if later, the department shall determine the standards and participating criteria for purposes of this pilot program. (c) This section shall not be construed to preclude Los Angeles County school district students not enrolled in Medi-Cal managed care from accessing vision care services from a mobile vision service provider participating in this pilot program. (d) Under the pilot program, if a school district in the County of Los Angeles enters into a written memorandum of understanding with a mobile vision care service provider allowing the provider to offer the vision care services described in this section to students, all of the following shall apply: (1) The two Medi-Cal managed care plans in the County of Los Angeles shall contract with one or more mobile vision care service providers that meets the standards and participation criteria developed pursuant to subdivision (b) for the delivery of those vision care services to any student enrolled in the Medi-Cal managed care plan who chooses to receive his or her vision care services from the provider at that schoolsite. This contracting requirement is contingent upon agreement between each of the two Medi-Cal managed care plans in the County of Los Angeles and a mobile vision care service provider with respect to reimbursement rates applicable to the services under this pilot. (2) Neither this pilot program nor the Medi-Cal managed care plan shall require that a Medi-Cal beneficiary receive the vision care services described in this section through a mobile vision care provider onsite at the school. (3) Prior to a Medi-Cal beneficiary receiving mobile vision care services at the schoolsite, the parents, guardians, or legal representative of the student shall consent in writing to the Medi-Cal beneficiary receiving the services through a mobile vision care provider onsite at the school. (e) An optometrist or ophthalmologist prescribing glasses to a Medi-Cal managed care beneficiary as part of services provided at a schoolsite by a mobile vision care service provider pursuant to this pilot program shall be enrolled in the Medi-Cal program as an Ordering/Referring/Prescribing provider. For any other purposes under the pilot program, the licensed health professional shall satisfy all requirements for enrollment as a provider in the Medi-Cal program. (f) (1) The Medi-Cal managed care plan shall compensate the mobile vision services provider for the cost of the vision examination, dispensing of the lenses, and eyeglass frames. (2) Ophthalmic eyeglasses lenses prescribed by optometrists or ophthalmologists for a Medi-Cal managed care plan enrollee as part of the services provided at a schoolsite by a mobile vision services provider shall be fabricated through optical laboratories the department contracts with pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 14105.3. (g) (1) The d
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