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California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
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Health and Safety Code - HSC |
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Division 2. LICENSING PROVISIONS |
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Chapter 2.2. Health Care Service Plans |
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ARTICLE 1. General |
Section 1341.45.
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(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, on and after the operative date of this section, shall be deposited into the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund.
(c) The fines and administrative penalties deposited into the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund shall be transferred by the department, beginning September 1, 2009, and annually thereafter, as follows:
(1) The first one million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be transferred to the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians within the Health Professions Education Fund and shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used for the purposes of the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program, as specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 128550) or Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division 107 and, notwithstanding Section 128555, shall not be used to provide funding for the Physician Volunteer Program.
(2) Any amount over the first one million dollars ($1,000,000), including accrued interest, in the fund shall be transferred to the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund created pursuant to Section 12739 of the Insurance Code and shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used for the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program for the purposes specified in Section 12739.1 of the Insurance Code.
(d) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 1356 and Section 1356.1, the fines and administrative penalties authorized pursuant to this chapter shall not be used to reduce the assessments imposed on health care service plans pursuant to Section 1356.