Health care coverage: emergency medical transport.

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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally requires a health care service plan contract or large group health insurance policy to provide an enrollee or insured with basic health care services, which include emergency health care services. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan that provides basic health care services from requiring prior authorization or refusing to pay for an…