CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1961Introduced by Assembly Member GabrielFebruary 10, 2022 An act to amend Section 440.10 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1961, as introduced, Gabriel. Health facilities: billing disclosure.Exiting law requires every health facility, within 7 days after completion of the patients itemized bill, to provide the primary attending health care practitioner a copy of the complete itemized charges for services rendered by the health facility to the health care practitioners patient, upon written request specifying the individual patient, when the primary attending health care practitioner is not employed by the health facility and is not a member of an integrated group practice that provided the health facility services. Existing law defines health facility for purposes of these provisions.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the definition of health facility.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 440.10 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:440.10. Health facility, as used in this chapter, part, means any a general acute care hospital required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1961Introduced by Assembly Member GabrielFebruary 10, 2022 An act to amend Section 440.10 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1961, as introduced, Gabriel. Health facilities: billing disclosure.Exiting law requires every health facility, within 7 days after completion of the patients itemized bill, to provide the primary attending health care practitioner a copy of the complete itemized charges for services rendered by the health facility to the health care practitioners patient, upon written request specifying the individual patient, when the primary attending health care practitioner is not employed by the health facility and is not a member of an integrated group practice that provided the health facility services. Existing law defines health facility for purposes of these provisions.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the definition of health facility.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1961
Introduced by Assembly Member GabrielFebruary 10, 2022
Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel
February 10, 2022
An act to amend Section 440.10 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1961, as introduced, Gabriel. Health facilities: billing disclosure.
Exiting law requires every health facility, within 7 days after completion of the patients itemized bill, to provide the primary attending health care practitioner a copy of the complete itemized charges for services rendered by the health facility to the health care practitioners patient, upon written request specifying the individual patient, when the primary attending health care practitioner is not employed by the health facility and is not a member of an integrated group practice that provided the health facility services. Existing law defines health facility for purposes of these provisions.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the definition of health facility.
Exiting law requires every health facility, within 7 days after completion of the patients itemized bill, to provide the primary attending health care practitioner a copy of the complete itemized charges for services rendered by the health facility to the health care practitioners patient, upon written request specifying the individual patient, when the primary attending health care practitioner is not employed by the health facility and is not a member of an integrated group practice that provided the health facility services. Existing law defines health facility for purposes of these provisions.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the definition of health facility.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 440.10 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:440.10. Health facility, as used in this chapter, part, means any a general acute care hospital required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 440.10 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:440.10. Health facility, as used in this chapter, part, means any a general acute care hospital required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2.
SECTION 1. Section 440.10 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:
### SECTION 1.
440.10. Health facility, as used in this chapter, part, means any a general acute care hospital required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2.
440.10. Health facility, as used in this chapter, part, means any a general acute care hospital required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2.
440.10. Health facility, as used in this chapter, part, means any a general acute care hospital required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2.
440.10. Health facility, as used in this chapter, part, means any a general acute care hospital required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2.