Section 12711.

The board shall have the authority:

(a) To determine the eligibility of applicants.

(b) To determine the major risk medical coverage to be provided program subscribers.

(c) To research and assess the needs of persons not adequately covered by existing private and public health care delivery systems and promote means of assuring the availability of adequate health care services.

(d) To approve subscriber contributions, and plan rates, and establish program contribution amounts.

(e) To provide major risk medical coverage for subscribers or to contract with a participating health plan or plans to provide or administer major risk medical coverage for subscribers.

(f) To authorize expenditures from the fund to pay program expenses which exceed subscriber contributions.

(g) To contract for administration of the program or any portion thereof with any public agency, including any agency of state government, or with any private entity.

(h) To issue rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this part.

(i) To authorize expenditures from the fund or from other moneys appropriated in the annual Budget Act for purposes relating to Section 10127.15 of this code or Section 1373.62 of the Health and Safety Code.

(j) To exercise all powers reasonably necessary to carry out the powers and responsibilities expressly granted or imposed upon it under this part.

(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 794, Sec. 15. Effective January 1, 2003.)