Each prepaid health plan shall provide the services of a psychologist and psychiatrist when the prepaid health plan contract requires the provision of mental health services. Mental health services shall be provided so that an enrollee may be seen initially by either a physician or a psychologist, or by psychiatric social workers under qualified supervision as otherwise allowed by law.
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 14452.5
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. 1977, Ch. 1036.
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