Inmates: inmate-initiated medical and dental visits.

Under existing law, the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is authorized to charge a fee in the amount of $5 for each inmate-initiated medical visit of an inmate confined in the state prison. Existing law authorizes the medical provider to waive the fee, requires the medical provider to waive the fee in any life-threatening or emergency situation, as defined, exempts followup medical visits from the fee, and requires all moneys received pursuant to this provision to, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be expended to reimburse the department for direct provision of inmate health care services.