Health care coverage: mental health and substance use disorders: provider credentials.
It became law on Sep 25, 2022.
- Stage
- Became law
- Started in
- Assembly
- Sponsor
- 1
- Latest action
- Sep 25, 2022
What it does
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 also provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical…
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This bill passed and is now law.
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