California · Health and Safety Code - HSC

HSC §1399.832: No health care service plan shall be required to offer a health care service plan contract or accept applications for the contract pursuant to this article in the case of any of the following: (a) To

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No health care service plan shall be required to offer a health care service plan contract or accept applications for the contract pursuant to this article in the case of any of the following: (a) To a child, if the child who is to be covered by the plan contract does not work or reside within the plan’s approved service areas. (b) (1) Within a specific service area or portion of a service area, if the plan reasonably anticipates and demonstrates to the satisfaction of the director that it will not have sufficient health care delivery resources to ensure that health care services will be available and accessible to the child because of its obligations to existing enrollees. (2) A health care service plan that cannot offer a health care service plan contract to individuals or children because it is lacking in sufficient health care delivery resources within a service area or a portion of a service area may not offer a contract in the area in which the plan is not offering coverage to individuals to new employer groups until the plan notifies the director that it has the ability to deliver services to individuals, and certifies to the director that from the date of the notice it will enroll all individuals requesting coverage in that area from the plan. (3) Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit the director’s authority to develop and implement a plan of rehabilitation for a health care service plan whose financial viability or organizational and administrative capacity has become impaired.

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