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Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 14450.5

Standards for Prepaid Health Plans

Known as the Waxman-Duffy Prepaid Health Plan Act

The act spans §§ 14200 to 14499.77 (113 sections).

Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 31, Sec. 2

(a) No contract between the department and a prepaid health plan that is contracting with, or that is governed, owned, or operated by, a county board of supervisors, shall be approved or renewed unless the standards set forth in Section 1374.16 of the Health and Safety Code are met. The treatment plan developed pursuant to Section 1374.16 of the Health and Safety Code shall be consistent with federal and state medicaid requirements. Nothing in Section 1374.16 of the Health and Safety Code is intended to alter or abrogate any other requirements of federal or state law with regard to medicaid.

(b) The requirements of this section shall apply to all managed care plan contracts entered into under any of the following:

(1) The act that added this subdivision.

(2) Any of the following provisions of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000).

(A) Article 2.7 (commencing with Section 14087.3).

(B) Article 2.9 (commencing with Section 14088).

(C) Article 2.91 (commencing with Section 14089).

(3) Article 7 of Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14490).

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.