Bill Text: CA AB1982 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Telehealth: dental care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-09-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 525, Statutes of 2022. [AB1982 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1982-Amended.html
include in its reports submitted to the
department pursuant to Section 1367.035 and regulations adopted pursuant to that section, report to the department, in a manner specified by the department, all of the following for each product type: include in its reports submitted to the department pursuant to Section
10133.54 and regulations adopted pursuant to that section, in a manner specified by the department, report to the department, in a manner specified by the department, all of the following for each product type:
Bill Title: Telehealth: dental care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-09-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 525, Statutes of 2022. [AB1982 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1982-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1982
Introduced by Assembly Member Santiago |
February 10, 2022 |
An act to add Section 1374.142 to the Health and Safety Code, and to add Section 10123.857 to the Insurance Code, relating to telehealth.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1982, as amended, Santiago.
Telehealth: dental care.
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 requires contract between a health care service plan or health insurer and a health care provider to require the plan or insurer to reimburse the provider for the diagnosis, consultation, or treatment of an enrollee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder appropriately delivered through telehealth services on the same basis and to the same extent as the same service through in-person diagnosis, consultation, or treatment. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer that offers a service via telehealth to meet specified conditions,
including, that the health care service plan or health insurer disclose to the enrollee or insured the availability of receiving the service on an in-person basis or via telehealth.
This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer covering dental services that offers a service via telehealth through a third-party corporate telehealth provider provider, as defined, to disclose to the enrollee or insured the impact of third-party telehealth visits on the patient’s benefit limitations, including frequency limitations and the patient’s annual maximum. The bill would also require those plans and insurers to submit specified information for each product type. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative
to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1374.142 is added to the Health and Safety Code, immediately following Section 1374.141, to read:1374.142.
(a) A health care service plan that issues, sells, renews, or offers a plan contract covering dental services, including a specialized health care service plan contract covering dental services that offers a service via telehealth to an enrollee through a third-party corporate telehealth provider shall(1) The total number of services delivered via telehealth by a third-party corporate telehealth provider.
(2) For each third-party corporate telehealth provider with which it contracts, the percentage of the third-party telehealth provider’s contracted providers available to the plan’s enrollees that are also participating network providers.
(3) For each third-party corporate telehealth provider with which it contracts, the types of telehealth services utilized by enrollees, including information on the gender and age of the enrollee, and any other information as determined by the department.
(b) A health care service plan that issues, sells, renews, or offers a plan contract covering dental services, including a specialized health care service plan contract covering dental services that offers a service via telehealth to an enrollee through a third-party corporate telehealth provider, shall disclose to the enrollee the impact of third-party telehealth visits on the patient’s enrollee’s benefit
limitations, including frequency limitations and the patient’s enrollee’s annual maximum.
(c) Section 1374.141. shall not apply to specialized health care service plans covering dental services.
(d) For the purposes of this section, “third-party corporate telehealth provider” means a corporation directly contracted with a health care service plan that issues, sells, reviews, or offers a plan contract covering dental services, including a specialized health care service plan that provides dental
services exclusively through a telehealth technology platform and has no physical location at which a patient can receive services.
SEC. 2.
Section 10123.857 is added to the Insurance Code, immediately following Section 10123.856, to read:10123.857.
(a) A health insurer that issues, sells, renews, or offers a policy covering dental services, including a specialized health insurance policy covering dental services that offers a service via telehealth to an insured through a third-party corporate telehealth provider shall(1) The total number of services delivered via telehealth by a third-party corporate telehealth provider.
(2) For each third-party corporate telehealth provider with which it contracts, the percentage of the third-party telehealth provider’s contracted providers available to the insurer’s insured that are also participating network providers.
(3) For each third-party corporate telehealth provider with which it contracts, the types of telehealth services utilized by insureds, including information on the gender and age of the insured, and any other information as determined by the department.
(b) A health care insurance policy that issues, sells, renews, or offers an insurance policy covering dental services, including a specialized health care policy covering dental services that offers a service via telehealth to an insured through a third-party corporate telehealth provider, shall disclose to the insured the impact of third-party telehealth visits on the patient’s
insured’s benefit limitations, including frequency limitations and the patient’s insured’s annual maximum.
(c) Section 10123.856 shall not apply to specialized health insurance policies covering dental services.
(d) For the purposes of this section, “third-party corporate telehealth provider” means a corporation directly contracted with a health insurer that provides health care services exclusively through a telehealth technology platform and has no
physical location at which a patient can receive services.