Essential health benefits.
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. The act requires an individual or small group health care service plan contract issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, to, at a minimum, cover essential health benefits, and defines “essential health benefits” to include health benefits covered by other particular benchmark plans, including a certain plan offered during the first quarter of 2014. A willful violation of the act is a crime.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.