California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 14115.41

WIC § 14115.41 Effective Jan 1, 2007Div. 9 · Part 3 · Ch. 7 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)For services that are performed at a central laboratory as authorized pursuant to Section 1241.1 of the Business and Professions Code, the department shall provide reimbursement directly to the laboratory performing the services and submitting the claim for reimbursement. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a primary care clinic network that utilizes centralized billing from submitting claims on the behalf of the network’s central laboratory, if the claims are submitted with the central laboratory’s provider number. The department shall not deny payment to a laboratory created pursuant to Section 1241.1 of the Business and Professions Code, for either of the following reasons:

(1)The clinic and the licensed central laboratory performing the services are owned and operated by the same nonprofit corporation with the same board of directors and the same corporate officers.

(2)The laboratory services are performed on a specimen collected at the clinic for a clinic patient.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 795, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2007.