Dental coverage: provider notice of changes.

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. Under the Knox-Keene Act, the Health Care Providers' Bill of Rights prohibits a contract between a health care service plan and a health care provider from including a term authorizing the plan to change a material term of the contract unless the parties have agreed to it or it is required to comply with state or federal law or with accreditation requirements of a private sector accreditation organization. Under existing law, if a change is made by…