§ 1300.49. General Licensure Requirements.
28 CA ADC § 1300.49Barclays Official California Code of Regulations
28 CCR § 1300.49
§ 1300.49. General Licensure Requirements.
As used in this section:
(2) “Institutional risk” means the assumption of the cost for the provision of hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, or hospital ancillary services to subscribers or enrollees undertaken by a person, other than services performed pursuant to the person's own license under section 1253 of the Health and Safety Code, in return for a prepaid or periodic charge paid by or on behalf of the subscriber or enrollee.
(3) “Limited health care service plan” means a person with a health care service plan license with waivers issued by the Department or its predecessor prior to January 1, 2000 for the provision of, or the arranging, payment, or reimbursement for the provision of, health care services to subscribers or enrollees of another health care service plan under a contract or other arrangement whereby the person assumes both professional and institutional risk.
(4) “Prepaid or periodic charge” for the purposes of this section means any amount of compensation, either at the start or end of a predetermined period, for assuming the risk, or arranging for others to assume the risk, of delivering or arranging for the delivery of the contracted-for health care services for subscribers or enrollees that may be fixed either in amount or percentage of savings or losses in which the entity shares.
(5) “Professional risk” means the assumption of the cost for the provision of physician, ancillary, or pharmacy services undertaken by physicians or other licensed or certified providers to subscribers or enrollees in return for a prepaid or periodic charge paid by or on behalf of the subscriber or enrollee.
(6) “Restricted health care service plan” means a person with a health care service plan license issued by the Department for the provision of, or the arranging, payment, or reimbursement for the provision of, health care services to subscribers or enrollees of another full service or specialized health care service plan under a contract or other arrangement whereby the person assumes both professional and institutional risk but does not directly market, solicit, or sell health care service plan contracts.
(2) Pursuant to section 1343 of the Health and Safety Code, the Director shall grant an exemption from this section to any person upon review and a finding that the action is in the public interest and not detrimental to the protection of subscribers, enrollees or persons regulated under the Knox-Keene Act. A person requesting an exemption shall submit the following information for consideration by the Director:
(A) The filing of Exhibit GG, Financial Viability, and Exhibit HH, Projected Financial Viability, of the application for licensure, pursuant to rule 1300.51 of this title. The Exhibits shall include current financial statements and projected changes that have or are expected to occur upon the assumption of global risk. A person that already files audited financial statements with the Department may request an exemption from filing Exhibit GG;
(G) Persons requesting an exemption shall submit the request to the following address: [email protected] or submit a hard copy to the Department of Managed Health Care, ATTN: Office of Plan Licensing, 980 Ninth Street, 5th Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814.
(A) An application for licensure in accordance with section 1351 of the Health and Safety Code and rule 1300.51 of this title. The application for licensure shall include all exhibit types, and within each exhibit as relevant, shall specify the functions for which the applicant restricted health care service plan will be responsible and which functions shall be the responsibility of the full service health care service plan or specialized health care service plan with which the restricted health care service plan contracts.
(C) A Restricted Health Care Service Plan Responsibility Statement, dated November, 2018, hereby incorporated by reference, describing the obligations of both the applicant restricted health care service plan and the full service health care service plan or specialized health care service plan with which the applicant restricted health care service plan contracts. The Restricted Health Care Service Plan Responsibility Statement shall disclose all requirements of the Knox-Keene Act and this title which remain the sole responsibility of the full service health care service plan or specialized health care service plan and which health care services will be the responsibility of the applicant restricted health care service plan. This statement must be signed by both the full service health care service plan or specialized health care service plan and the applicant restricted health care service plan.
(3) Pursuant to the network adequacy requirements of the Knox-Keene Act and this chapter, including those requirements set forth in sections 1367, 1367.03, and 1375.9 of the Health and Safety Code, as well as rules 1300.51, 1300.67.2, 1300.67.2.1, and 1300.67.2.2 of this title, the applicant restricted health care service plan shall maintain its own contracted provider network that ensures adequate access to all health care services for which it maintains responsibility pursuant to the Restricted Health Care Service Plan Responsibility Statement.
Credits
Note: Authority cited: Sections 1344 and 1349, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 1343.5, 1345, 1349, 1351 and 1375.1, Health and Safety Code.
History
1. New section filed 3-5-2019; operative 7-1-2019 (Register 2019, No. 10).
This database is current through 4/26/24 Register 2024, No. 17.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 28, § 1300.49, 28 CA ADC § 1300.49
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