Section 1300.71.39 - Unfair Billing Patterns(a) Except for services subject to the requirements of Section 1367.11 of the Act, "unfair billing pattern" includes the practice, by a provider of emergency services, including but not limited to hospitals and hospital-based physicians such as radiologists, pathologists, anesthesiologists, and on-call specialists, of billing an enrollee of a health care service plan for amounts owed to the provider by the health care service plan or its capitated provider for the provision of emergency services.(b) For purposes of this section: (1) "Emergency services" means those services required to be covered by a health plan pursuant to Health & Safety Code sections 1345(b)(6), 1367(i), 1371.4, 1371.5 and Title 28, California Code of Regulations, sections 1300.67(g) and 1300.71.4.(2) Co-payments, coinsurance and deductibles that are the financial responsibility of the enrollee are not amounts owed the provider by the health care service plan.(3) "The plan's capitated provider" shall have the same meaning as that provided in section 1300.71(a).Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 28, § 1300.71.39
1. New section filed 9-15-2008; operative 10-15-2008 (Register 2008, No. 38). Note: Authority cited: Sections 1344, 1371.39 and 1371.4, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 1317.1, 1317.7, 1342, 1345, 1346, 1362.8, 1367, 1371, 1371.1, 1371.35, 1371.36, 1371.38, 1371.39, 1371.4, 1371.5 and 1379, Health and Safety Code.
1. New section filed 9-15-2008; operative 10-15-2008 (Register 2008, No. 38).