Existing law requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, after consultation with the Insurance Commissioner, the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care, the State Director of Health Care Services, and the Director of Industrial Relations, to adopt a California uniform billing form format for professional health care services and a California uniform billing form format for institutional provider services. The format for professional health care services is the format developed by the National Uniform Claim Form Committee.

This bill would require any health care provider that directly bills a patient for professional health care services, including hospital services, to provide in plain English, as defined, a description of the medical procedure or services for which a patient is billed.