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AB 940: Health care: eating disorders.

  • Session Year: 2023-2024
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2023-03-16

Current Status:

Failed

(2024-02-01: From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Enacted

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Existing law establishes the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires that inpatient treatment of eating disorders must be provided only in state licensed hospitals, which may be general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, or any other licensed health facility designed by the State Department of Public Health.

This bill would expand the approved facilities for inpatient treatment of eating disorders to include psychiatric health facilities.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract and a health insurance policy to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses, including specified eating disorders.This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand treatment options and services for individuals suffering from eating disorders.

News Coverage:

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