AB 2566 Summary

• Adds Section 2417.5 to the Business and Professions Code to establish that business organizations providing outpatient elective cosmetic medical procedures while violating physician employment restrictions are guilty of making false or fraudulent health care benefit claims under Penal Code Section 550(a)(6)

• Applies to business organizations that are owned or operated in violation of Section 2400 (Medical Practice Act employment restrictions) and contract with or employ physicians to provide cosmetic procedures that only licensed physicians can perform

• Defines "outpatient elective cosmetic medical procedures or treatments" as medical procedures performed to alter or reshape normal body structures solely to improve appearance

• Declares that the bill's provisions are declaratory of existing law

• Specifies that no state reimbursement to local agencies or school districts is required because the act only creates new criminal offense definitions