Health care districts: rural hospitals: employment of physicians and surgeons.
This bill failed and is no longer moving.
- Stage
- Failed
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 5
- Latest action
- Nov 30, 2010
What it does
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, restricts the employment of licensed physicians and surgeons and podiatrists by a corporation or other artificial legal entity, subject to specified exemptions. Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2011, a pilot project to allow qualified district hospitals to employ a physician and surgeon if certain conditions are satisfied. The pilot project authorizes the direct employment of a total of 20 physicians and surgeons by those hospitals, and specifies that each qualified district hospital may employ up to 2 physicians and surgeons, subject to certain requirements. The pilot project requires that the term of a contract with a licensee not exceed 4…
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