Healthcare coverage: telehealth – This bill would specify that face-to-face contact between a health care provider and a patient is not required under the Medi-Cal program for any health care services provided by store and forward. This bill would require a contract issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, between a health care service plan and a health care provider for the provision of health care services to an enrollee or subscriber, or a contract issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, between a health insurer and a health care provider for an alternative rate of payment to specify that the health care service plan or health insurer reimburse a health care provider for the diagnosis, consultation, or treatment of an enrollee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder appropriately delivered through telehealth services on the same basis and to the same extent that the health care service plan or health insurer is responsible for reimbursement for the same service through in-person diagnosis, consultation, or treatment. The bill would authorize a health care service plan or health insurer to offer a contract or policy containing a copayment or coinsurance requirement for a health care service delivered through telehealth services, subject to specified limitations. The bill would require telehealth services covered under a health care service plan contract or policy or health insurance issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, to be subject to the same deductible and annual or lifetime dollar maximum as for equivalent services that are not provided through telehealth.