California Business and Professions Code

§ 3537.35

BPC § 3537.35 Effective Jan 1, 2023Div. 2 · Ch. 7.7 · Art. 7.5

Statute text

The Department of Health Care Access and Information shall, in addition to other duties described in this article, do all of the following:

(a)Determine those areas of the state that are medically underserved in that they have a higher percentage of medically underserved and indigent persons and would benefit from the services of additional persons licensed as physician assistants.

(b)Determine the total cost of seeking cover as specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 3537.30. To determine the cost, the department shall study the market forces that are at work creating the scarcity of these physician assistants in these medically underserved areas, and determine the annual level of additional funding that would be required by a health facility, clinic, or other health care provider in those areas to motivate a physician assistant to serve full-time in those underserved areas. This amount shall be calculated so that when added to the prevailing rate for these services in the underserved area, would make these positions so attractive that physician assistants would be motivated to serve in those areas. This amount, which shall equal the cost to the department to place a qualified physician assistant in the underserved area, times four years shall be the total cost of seeking cover.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 511, Sec. 21. (SB 1495) Effective January 1, 2023.