California Health and Safety Code

§ 1375.9

HSC § 1375.9 Effective Jan 1, 2019Div. 2 · Ch. 2.2 · Art. 6

Statute text

(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.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 152, Sec. 1. (SB 997) Effective January 1, 2019.