California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - General
- Section 1340.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 941.)
- Section 1341.
(a) There is in state government, in the California Health and Human Services Agency, a Department of Managed Health Care that has charge of the...
- Section 1341.1.
The director shall have his or her principal office in the City of Sacramento, and may establish branch offices in the City and County of...
- Section 1341.2.
In accordance with the laws governing the state civil service, the director shall employ and, with the approval of the Department of Finance, fix the...
- Section 1341.3.
The director shall adopt a seal bearing the inscription: “Director, Department of Managed Health Care, State of California.” The seal shall be affixed to or...
- Section 1341.4.
(a) In order to effectively support the Department of Managed Health Care in the administration of this law, there is hereby established in the State Treasury,...
- Section 1341.45.
(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund.(b) The fines and administrative penalties collected pursuant to this chapter,...
- Section 1341.5.
(a) The director, as a general rule, shall publish or make available for public inspection any information filed with or obtained by the department, unless the...
- Section 1341.6.
(a) The Attorney General shall render to the director opinions upon all questions of law, relating to the construction or interpretation of any law under...
- Section 1341.7.
(a) Neither the director nor any of the director’s assistants, clerks, or deputies shall be interested as a director, officer, shareholder, member other than a...
- Section 1341.8.
The director shall have the powers of a head of a department pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150) of Part 1 of Division...
- Section 1341.9.
The director and department succeed to, and are vested with, all duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Corporations and the Department...
- Section 1341.10.a.
The department may use the unexpended balance of funds available for use in connection with the performance of the functions of the Department of Corporations...
- Section 1341.11.
All officers and employees of the Department of Corporations who, on the operative date of this section, are performing any duty, power, purpose, responsibility, or...
- Section 1341.12.
The department shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, licenses, permits, agreements, contracts, claims, judgments, land, and...
- Section 1341.13.
All officers or employees of the department employed after the operative date of this section shall be appointed by the director.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch....
- Section 1341.14.
(a) Any regulation, order, or other action, adopted, prescribed, taken, or performed by the Department of Corporations or by an officer of the Department of Corporations...
- Section 1342.
It is the intent and purpose of the Legislature to promote the delivery and the quality of health and medical care to the people of...
- Section 1342.4.
(a) The Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance shall maintain a joint senior level working group to ensure clarity for health...
- Section 1342.5.
The director shall consult with the Insurance Commissioner prior to adopting any regulations applicable to health care service plans subject to this chapter and other...
- Section 1342.6.
It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that the citizens of this state receive high-quality health care coverage in the most efficient and...
- Section 1342.7.
(a) The Legislature finds that in enacting Sections 1367.215, 1367.25, 1367.45, 1367.51, and 1374.72, it did not intend to limit the department’s authority to regulate the...
- Section 1342.71.
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(1) The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, its implementing regulations and guidance, and related state...
- Section 1342.71.a.
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(1) The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, its implementing regulations and guidance, and related state...
- Section 1342.8.
The State Department of Health Services and the department shall coordinate, to the extent feasible, audits or surveys of physician offices required by this chapter...
- Section 1343.
(a) This chapter shall apply to health care service plans and specialized health care service plan contracts as defined in subdivisions (f) and (o) of Section...
- Section 1343.1.
This chapter shall not apply to any program developed under the authority of Chapter 8.75 (commencing with Section 14591) of Part 3 of Division 9...
- Section 1343.5.
In any proceeding under this chapter, the burden of proving an exemption or an exception from a definition is upon the person claiming it.(Added by...
- Section 1344.
(a) The director may from time to time adopt, amend, and rescind any rules, forms, and orders that are necessary to carry out the provisions of...
- Section 1345.
As used in this chapter:(a) “Advertisement” means any written or printed communication or any communication by means of recorded telephone messages or by radio, television,...
Last modified: October 22, 2018