California Insurance Code

§ 10133.65

INS § 10133.65 Effective Jan 1, 2013Div. 2 · Part 2 · Ch. 1 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)This section shall be known and may be cited as the Health Care Providers’ Bill of Rights.

(b)No contract issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2003, between a health insurer and a health care provider for the provision of covered benefits at alternative rates of payment to an insured shall contain any of the following terms:

(1)A provision that requires a health care provider to accept additional patients beyond the contracted number or in the absence of a number if, in the reasonable professional judgment of the provider, accepting additional patients would endanger patients’ access to, or continuity of, care.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 447, Sec. 2. (AB 2252) Effective January 1, 2013.