Cal. Insurance Code § 10123.857
Cal. Insurance Code § 10123.857
California · California Insurance Code · Status: effective · Effective 2025-01-01
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- Cal. Insurance Code § 10123.857, California, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-25, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/879538
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(a) A health insurer that issues, sells, renews, or offers a policy covering dental services, including a specialized health insurance policy covering dental services that offers a service via telehealth to an insured through a third-party corporate telehealth provider shall report to the department, in a manner specified by the department, all of the following for each product type:
(1) The total number of services delivered via telehealth by a third-party corporate telehealth provider.
(2) For each third-party corporate telehealth provider with which it contracts, the percentage of the third-party telehealth provider’s contracted providers available to the insurer’s insured that are also network providers.
(3) For each third-party corporate telehealth provider with which it contracts, the types of telehealth services utilized by insureds, including information on the gender and age of the insured, and any other information as determined by the department.
(b) A health insurer that issues, sells, renews, or offers a policy covering dental services, including a specialized health care policy covering dental services that offers a service via telehealth to an insured through a third-party corporate telehealth provider, shall disclose to the insured the impact of third-party telehealth visits on the insured’s benefit limitations, including frequency limitations and the insured’s annual maximum.
(c) Section 10123.856 shall not apply to specialized health insurance policies covering dental services.
(d) For the purposes of this section, “third-party corporate telehealth provider” means a corporation that provides dental services exclusively through a telehealth technology platform and has no physical location at which a patient can receive services, and is directly contracted with a health insurer that issues, sells, renews, or offers a policy, including a specialized health insurance policy, that covers dental services.