Bill Text: CA AB1038 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health data: rates for health care services: physicians and surgeons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1038 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1038-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 03, 2019 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1038 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi |
February 21, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution and air pollution control and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources.
This bill would authorize an air district to impose a charge equal to the costs the air district expends in contracting with a third party to review the scientific or engineering information provided to the air district at the air district’s request by a facility regulated pursuant to specified provisions in order to verify the information provided is accurate. The bill
would state that this provision is declaratory of existing law.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 128900) is added to Part 5 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:CHAPTER 4. Rates for Health Care Services
128900.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that negotiated rates for services provided by physicians and surgeons are not publicly available, impeding the ability of the payers of health care services to determine the price of care and the oversight of the Legislature of health care costs.128901.
As used in this chapter, “office” means the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.128902.
(a) The Medical Board of California shall provide to the office no less than annually a comprehensive list of all physicians and surgeons licensed in California, including the following information:A district may impose a charge equal to the costs the district expends in contracting with a third party to review the scientific or engineering information provided to the district at the district’s request by a facility regulated pursuant to this part in order to verify the information provided is accurate.
The addition of Section 42000 to the Health and Safety Code does not constitute a change in, but is declaratory of, existing law.