California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - Hospital Fair Pricing Policies

• Section 127400.
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings:(a) “Allowance for financially qualified patient” means, with respect to services rendered to a financially...
• Section 127401.
  Each general acute care hospital licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1250 shall comply with the provisions of this article as a condition of...
• Section 127405.
  (a) (1) (A) Each hospital shall maintain an understandable written policy regarding discount payments for financially qualified patients as well as an understandable written charity care policy. Uninsured...
• Section 127410.
  (a) Each hospital shall provide patients with a written notice that shall contain information about availability of the hospital’s discount payment and charity care policies, including...
• Section 127420.
  (a) Each hospital shall make all reasonable efforts to obtain from the patient or his or her representative information about whether private or public health insurance...
• Section 127425.
  (a) Each hospital shall have a written policy about when and under whose authority patient debt is advanced for collection, whether the collection activity is conducted...
• Section 127426.
  (a) The period described in Section 127425 shall be extended if the patient has a pending appeal for coverage of the services, until a final determination...
• Section 127430.
  (a) Prior to commencing collection activities against a patient, the hospital, any assignee of the hospital, or other owner of the patient debt, including a collection...
• Section 127435.
  Each hospital shall provide to the office a copy of its discount payment policy, charity care policy, eligibility procedures for those policies, review process, and...
• Section 127440.
  The hospital shall reimburse the patient or patients any amount actually paid in excess of the amount due under this article, including interest. Interest owed...
• Section 127443.
  The rights, remedies, and penalties established by this article are cumulative, and shall not supersede the rights, remedies, or penalties established under other laws.(Added by...
• Section 127444.
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit a hospital from uniformly imposing charges from its established charge schedule or published rates, nor shall...
• Section 127445.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amounts paid by parties for services resulting from reduced or waived charges under a hospital’s discounted payment or...
• Section 127446.
  To the extent that any requirement of Section 127400, 127401, or 127405 results in a federal determination that a hospital’s established charge schedule or published...

Last modified: October 22, 2018