Dental care providers must supply patient with a treatment plan before arranging for credit from a third party. The treatment plan must include all anticipated services and their cost.
Every professional liability insurer to a licensed health care provider shall send a complete report to the pertinent board as to any settlement/arbitration award over three thousand dollars of a claim or action for damages for death or personal injury caused by that license holder's negligence, error, or omission in practice, or by his or her rendering of unauthorized professional services.
Every professional liability insurer of dentists shall send a complete report to the Dental Board of California as to any settlement or arbitration award over ten thousand dollars of a claim or action for damages for death or personal injury caused by that person's negligence, error, or omission in practice, or rendering of unauthorized professional services.
Every professional liability insurer, self-insured governmental agency, or licensee (or counsel) must file a complete report of any settlement or arbitration award over $30,000 emanating from a claim for death or personal injury caused by the licensee's alleged negligence, error, or omission in practice, or by his or her rendering of unauthorized professional services, if the license was granted by either the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine.
If the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, within 60 days of its receipt of a mandatory settlement report, notifies a person named in the report, that person shall maintain for the period of three years from the date of filing of the report any records he or she has as to the matter in question and shall make those records available upon request to the board.
A person or entity that underwrites or sells annuity contracts or contracts insuring against loss, harm, damage, illness, disability, or death. . . shall not disclose individually identifiable information concerning the health of, or the medical or genetic history of, a customer, to any [other financial or credit institution.]
Claimants may obtain, upon request, copies of claim-related documents. However, certain documents, including documents that contain medically privileged information, are excluded from the documents an insurer is required to provide to a claimant.
All medical information solicited or obtained by any person soliciting or entering into a life settlement is subject to the Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act concerning confidentiality of medical information.
Records of all consummated transactions and life settlement contracts shall be maintained by the provider for three years after the death of the insured and shall be available to the commissioner for inspection during reasonable business hours.
