California Welfare and Institutions Code 14043.25 – (a) The application form for enrollment, the provider agreement, …
(a) The application form for enrollment, the provider agreement, and all attachments or changes to either, shall be signed under penalty of perjury.
(b) The department may require that the application form for enrollment, the provider agreement, and all attachments or changes to either, submitted by an applicant or provider licensed pursuant to Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) of the Business and Professions Code, the Osteopathic Initiative Act, or the Chiropractic Initiative Act, be notarized.
Terms Used In California Welfare and Institutions Code 14043.25
- Applicant: means an individual, including an ordering, referring, or prescribing individual, partnership, group, association, corporation, institution, or entity, and the officers, directors, owners, managing employees, or agents thereof, that apply to the department for enrollment as a provider in the Medi-Cal program. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14043.1
- department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14062
- Location: means a street, city, or rural route address or a site or place within a street, city, or rural route address, and the city, county, state, and nine-digit ZIP Code. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14043.1
- Provider: means an individual, partnership, group, association, corporation, institution, or entity, and the officers, directors, owners, managing employees, or agents of a partnership, group association, corporation, institution, or entity, that provides services, goods, supplies, or merchandise, directly or indirectly, including all ordering, referring, and prescribing, to a Medi-Cal beneficiary and that has been enrolled in the Medi-Cal program. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14043.1
(c) Application forms for enrollment, provider agreements, and all attachments or changes to either, submitted by an applicant or provider not subject to subdivision (b) shall be notarized. This subdivision shall not apply with respect to providers under the In-Home Supportive Services program or any providers that choose to enroll electronically.
(d) The department shall collect an application fee for enrollment, including continued enrollment or enrollment at a new location or a change in location. The application fee shall not be collected from individual physicians or nonphysician practitioners, from providers that are enrolled in Medicare or another state’s Medicaid program or Children’s Health Insurance Program, from providers that submit proof that they have paid the applicable fee to a Medicare contractor or to another state’s Medicaid program, or pursuant to an exemption or waiver pursuant to federal law. The application fee collected shall be in the amount calculated by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in effect for the calendar year during which the application for enrollment is received by the department.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 271, Sec. 3. (SB 299) Effective September 4, 2015.)