Bill Text: CA AB2726 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Specialty care networks: telehealth and other virtual services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-29 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [AB2726 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2726-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2726

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Introduced by Assembly Member Flora

February 14, 2024

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An act relating to health care coverage.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2726, as introduced, Flora. Health care coverage: access to specialty care.

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 health care service plans to meet specified requirements, including establishing a procedure by which a covered individual may receive a standing referral to a specialist.

This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to increase access to specialty care to support whole-person care among California’s most medically complex patients facing significant adverse social drivers of health.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to increase access to specialty care to support whole-person care among California’s most medically complex patients facing significant adverse social drivers of health.