CA AB1817

Requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish and maintain a statewide utilization management program for all adult prisons, including review of specialty medical referrals, community hospital bed usage, and case management for high-risk and high-cost patients.

Mandates the department develop uniform policies and procedures by July 1, 2011 to ensure all adult prisons employ the same utilization management program, with copies provided to specified legislative committees.

Requires the department to establish annual quantitative utilization management performance objectives and report to legislative committees on July 1, 2011, detailing specific goals for each adult prison over the next 12 months.

Mandates annual reporting beginning March 1, 2012 on achievement of performance objectives, lists of prisons meeting or failing objectives, planned initiatives, and inmate health care costs both statewide and by facility, with this requirement expiring March 1, 2016.

Establishes legislative intent that implementation activities result in no year-over-year net increase in state costs, in response to medical and pharmacy contract costs growing from $204 million to $845 million between fiscal years 2003-04 and 2008-09.