California § 128905 - Commencing January 1, 2027, every clinic holding a license and, notwithstanding s

§ 128905. Commencing January 1, 2027, every clinic holding a license and, notwithstanding s

(a) Commencing January 1, 2027, every clinic holding a license and, notwithstanding subdivision (h) of Section 1206, every intermittent clinic operated by a licensed clinic and exempt from licensure shall, on or before the 15th day of March each year, file with the department, upon forms to be furnished by the department, a verified report showing the following information relating to the previous calendar year: (1) Number of patients served and descriptive information, including, but not limited to, age, sex, race, ethnicity, preferred language spoken, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and payor category. A clinic shall not be subject to any adverse action for not providing sexual orientation and gender identity information if the patient refused to provide that information. (2) Number of patient visits by type of service, including all of the following: (A) Child health and disability prevention screens, treatment, and followup services. (B) Medical services. (C) Dental services. (D) Other health services. (3) Primary care clinics participating in the Medi-Cal program or county indigent programs shall include the following: (A) Number of assigned members per Medi-Cal managed care plan and county indigent program. (B) Number of assigned members per Medi-Cal managed care plan and county indigent program that had one or more clinic visits. (4) Total clinic operating expenses. (5) Gross patient charges by payer category, including Medicare, Medi-Cal, the Child Health Disability Prevention Program, county indigent programs, other county programs, private insurance, self-paying patients, nonpaying patients, and other payers. (6) Deductions from revenue by payer category, bad debts, and charity care charges. (7) Average weekly number of clinic operating hours and whether or not the clinic is licensed or intermittent. (8) Additional information as may be required by the department or the State Department of Public Health. (9) This subdivision does not apply to specialty clinics. (b) In order to facilitate timely enforcement of this section, the department shall send a written notice of violation to every clinic that fails to file a timely report pursuant to this section or pursuant to Section 127285 or 128910, either for itself or for any intermittent clinic it operates. The department shall also provide the State Department of Public Health with a list of every clinic that receives a written notice of violation and notify the State Department of Public Health when a clinic on the list completes and files all delinquent reports. The department shall make these notices and lists, including notifications of when a clinic on the list completes and files all delinquent reports, available on its internet website. (c) In order to promote efficient reporting of accurate data, the department shall consider the unique operational characteristics of different classifications of licensed clinics, including, but not limited to, the limited scope of services provided by some specialty clinics, in its design of forms for the collection of data required by this section. (d) For the purpose of administering funds appropriated from the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund for support of licensed clinics, clinics receiving those funds may be required to report any additional data the department or the State Department of Public Health may determine necessary to ensure the equitable distribution and appropriate expenditure of those funds. This shall include, but not be limited to, information about the poverty level of patients served and communicable diseases reported to local health departments. (e) This section shall apply to all licensed primary care clinics, and to all intermittent clinics operated by those licensed primary care clinics, notwithstanding subdivision (h) of Section 1206. (f) Specialty clinics shall report the following: (1) Number of patients during the preceding year. (2) Total amount of administrative or other charges or fees collected from patients. (3) Total amount of revenues from other sources for the previous year. (4) Total operating cost for clinic for the previous year. (5) Additional information as may be required by regulation of the department.