Bill Text: CA SB997 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Health care service plans: physician to enrollee ratios.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-07-20 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 152, Statutes of 2018. [SB997 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB997-Chaptered.html
| Senate Bill No. 997 |
| CHAPTER 152 |
An act to amend Section 1375.9 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care service plans.
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Approved by
Governor
July 20, 2018.
Filed with
Secretary of State
July 20, 2018.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 997, Monning.
Health care service plans: physician to enrollee ratios.
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 requires a health care service plan to ensure that there is at least one full-time equivalent primary care physician for every 2,000 enrollees and authorizes the assignment of up to an additional 1,000 enrollees, as specified, to a primary care physician for each full-time equivalent nonphysician medical practitioner, as defined, supervised by that physician. Under existing law, these provisions repeal on January 1, 2019.
This bill would delete the repeal date, thereby continuing operation of these provisions indefinitely. By extending the operation of these
requirements, the willful violation of which would be a crime, this 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 1375.9 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:1375.9.
(a) A health care service plan shall ensure that there is at least one full-time equivalent primary care physician for every 2,000 enrollees of the plan. The number of enrollees per primary care physician may be increased by up to 1,000 additional enrollees for each full-time equivalent nonphysician medical practitioner supervised by that primary care physician.(b) This section shall not require a primary care physician to accept an assignment of enrollees by a health care service plan without his or her approval, or that would be contrary to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1375.7.
(c) This section does not modify subdivision (e) of Section 2836.1 of the Business and Professions Code or
subdivision (b) of Section 3516 of the Business and Professions Code.
(d) For purposes of this section, a primary care provider includes a “nonphysician medical practitioner,” which is defined as a physician assistant performing services under the supervision of a primary care physician in compliance with Chapter 7.7 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code or a nurse practitioner performing services in collaboration with a physician pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 2700) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code.
