AB 1335, as introduced, Gomez. Health care service plans.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene Act), 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 that health care service plans shall not be deemed to be engaged in the practice of a profession, and may employ, or contract with, any licensed health care professional to deliver professional services, and may directly own, and may directly operate through its professional employees or contracted licensed professionals, offices and subsidiary corporations.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to clarify the law with regard to health care service plans and the entities with which a health care service plan may transact business.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
2legislation to clarify the law with regard to health care service
3plans that are regulated under the Knox-Keene Health Care Service
4Plan Act of 1975 (Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section 1340)
P2 1of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code) and the entities with
2which a health care service plan may transact business.
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