California Health and Safety Code

§ 1367.31

HSC § 1367.31 Effective Jan 1, 2017Div. 2 · Ch. 2.2 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)Every health care service plan contract issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after January 1, 2017, shall be prohibited from requiring an enrollee to receive a referral prior to receiving coverage or services for reproductive and sexual health care.

(b)(1) For the purposes of this section, “reproductive and sexual health care services” are all reproductive and sexual health services described in Sections 6925, 6926, 6927, and 6928 of the Family Code, or Section 121020 of the Health and Safety Code, obtained by a patient.

(2)For the purposes of this section, “reproductive and sexual health care services” do not include the services subject to a health care service plan’s referral procedures as required by subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 1374.16.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 495, Sec. 3. (AB 1954) Effective January 1, 2017.