California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 6 - Unearned Rebates, Refunds and Discounts

• Section 650.
  (a) Except as provided in Chapter 2.3 (commencing with Section 1400) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, the offer, delivery, receipt, or acceptance...
• Section 650.01.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 650, or any other provision of law, it is unlawful for a licensee to refer a person for laboratory, diagnostic nuclear medicine, radiation...
• Section 650.02.
  The prohibition of Section 650.01 shall not apply to or restrict any of the following:(a) A licensee may refer a patient for a good or service...
• Section 650.1.
  (a) Any amount payable to any hospital, as defined in Section 4028, or any person or corporation prohibited from pharmacy permit ownership by subdivision (a) of...
• Section 650.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 650 or any other provision of law, it shall not be unlawful for a person licensed pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section...
• Section 650.3.
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 650 or any other provision of law, it shall not be unlawful for a person licensed pursuant to the Chiropractic...
• Section 650.4.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 650, subdivision (o) of Section 4982, or any other provision of law, it shall not be unlawful for a person licensed pursuant to...
• Section 651.
  (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division to disseminate or cause to...
• Section 651.3.
  (a) Any labor organization, bona fide employee group or bona fide employee association having contracted health care services from a health care service plan under the...
• Section 652.
  Violation of this article in the case of a licensed person constitutes unprofessional conduct and grounds for suspension or revocation of his or her license...
• Section 652.5.
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, any violation of this article constitutes a misdemeanor as to any and all persons, whether or not licensed...
• Section 653.
  The word “person” as used in this article includes an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or cooperative association.(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch....
• Section 654.
  No person licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of this division may have any membership, proprietary interest or coownership in any form in...
• Section 654.1.
  Persons licensed under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1600) of this division or licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of this division or...
• Section 654.2.
  (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division to charge, bill, or otherwise...
• Section 654.3.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Licensee” means an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or cooperative association licensed under...
• Section 655.
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Health plan” means a health care service plan licensed pursuant to the Knox-Keene...
• Section 655.2.
  (a) (1) No physician and surgeon or medical corporation licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000), nor any audiologist who is not a licensed dispensing audiologist...
• Section 655.5.
  (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division, or any clinical laboratory, or...
• Section 655.7.
  (a) (1) A person licensed under this division or under an initiative act referred to in this division shall not charge, bill, or otherwise solicit payment, directly...
• Section 655.8.
  (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division to charge, bill, or otherwise...
• Section 656.
  Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices that constitute, or will constitute, a violation of this article,...
• Section 657.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Californians spend more than one hundred billion dollars ($100,000,000,000) annually on health care.(2) In 1994, an estimated 6.6...

Last modified: October 22, 2018