Bill Text: CA SB1049 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health care claims reimbursement.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Engrossed) 2026-08-05 - August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file. [SB1049 Detail]
Download: California-2025-SB1049-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
April 06, 2026 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1049
| Introduced by Senator Weber Pierson |
February 12, 2026 |
An act to add Section 1371.21 to the Health and Safety Code, and to add Section 10123.134 to the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1049, as amended, Weber Pierson.
Health care claims reimbursement.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer to reimburse a complete claim or a portion thereof within 30 calendar days after receipt of the claim, or, if a claim or portion thereof does not meet the criteria for completeness, to notify the claimant no later than 30 calendar days after receipt that the claim or portion thereof is contested or denied.
This bill would grant a provider 90 days to submit a corrected claim after a health care service plan or health insurer denies a claim or sends a notice of
overpayment for a claim based a defect that may be remedied by submitting a corrected claim. The bill would prohibit a plan or insurer from denying a corrected claim on the grounds that the provider did not submit the claim within the another applicable claim filing deadline. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1371.21 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:1371.21.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, if a health care service plan denies a claim or sends a notice of overpayment for a claim based in whole or in part on a defect that may be remedied by submitting a corrected claim, the provider shall have 90 days from the plan’s most recent action to submit a corrected claim.(b) A plan shall not deny a
corrected claim submitted pursuant to this section and in accordance with subdivision (a) on the grounds that the provider did not submit the claim within the an applicable claim filing deadline. deadline other than the deadline specified in subdivision (a).
SEC. 2.
Section 10123.134 is added to the Insurance Code, to read:10123.134.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, if a health insurer denies a claim or sends a notice of overpayment for a claim based in whole or in part on a defect that may be remedied by submitting a corrected claim, the provider shall have 90 days from the insurer’s most recent action to submit a corrected claim.(b) An insurer shall not deny
a corrected claim submitted pursuant to this section and in accordance with subdivision (a) on the grounds that the provider did not submit the claim within the an applicable claim filing deadline. deadline other than the deadline specified in subdivision (a).
