coverage pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 14011.6, the department shall not institute a process to require county welfare departments to routinely manually report to the Medi-Cal Eligibility Data System (MEDS) regarding the status of applications for Medi-Cal coverage prior to the development of an interface between that county’s automated eligibility determination system and the MEDS system for the purposes of implementing this section. It is the intent of the Legislature that the Health Human Services Data Center and the counties complete the automation changes necessary to implement the automated tracking system on or before July 1, 2003.

status of an individual application or to manually generate a report on a statistically valid sampling of applications pursuant to federally required monitoring activities.