Report 2010-103R Recommendation 4 Responses

Report 2010-103R: Department of Public Health: It Faces Significant Fiscal Challenges and Lacks Transparency in Its Administration of the Every Woman Counts Program (Release Date: July 2010)

Recommendation #4 To: Public Health, Department of

To ensure that Public Health can maintain fiscal control over the EWC program, we recommend that it develop budgets for the EWC program that clearly communicate to the Legislature the level of service that it can provide based on available resources. One way Public Health could do this would be to estimate the number of women that can be screened at different levels of funding.

1-Year Agency Response

In its one-year response, Public Health indicated that it had developed a formal budget estimate package for the EWC program that was included in the Governor’s Budget for fiscal year 2011–12. This package contained the estimated number of women served based on its projection of the amount of clinical claims the EWC program would pay during the fiscal year. We reviewed the formal budget estimate package that Public Health provided to the Legislature as part of the fiscal year 2011–12 budget process and confirmed that it provided the Legislature with information on the expected number of women to be served. We also noted that Public Health has posted its estimate packages on the EWC program’s Web site. Public Health’s one-year response also indicated that it is attempting to track the social security numbers of the women who access the EWC program in an effort to better track caseload. (2012-406, p. 84).

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2010-103R

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.