Cal. HSC § 1200.1
This is the official text of Cal. HSC § 1200.1, part of California’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health, hospitals, controlled substances, and environmental health standards.
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(a) As used in this chapter, “clinic” also means an organized outpatient health facility which, pursuant to Section 1204.1, provides direct psychological advice, services, or treatment to patients who remain less than 24 hours, and which may also provide diagnostic or therapeutic services authorized under Chapter 6.6 (commencing with Section 2900) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code to patients in the home as an incident to care provided at the clinic facility.
(b) Psychological clinics, as defined in Section 1204.1, shall not be considered primary care clinics for the purposes of any state grants, state loans, or other state aid.
Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit psychological clinics from receiving payment to which they are otherwise entitled from the state or in which the state participates financially, for services rendered pursuant to their license.
(c) Any reference in any statute to Section 1200 shall be deemed and construed to also be a reference to this section.
(b) Psychological clinics, as defined in Section 1204.1, shall not be considered primary care clinics for the purposes of any state grants, state loans, or other state aid.
Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit psychological clinics from receiving payment to which they are otherwise entitled from the state or in which the state participates financially, for services rendered pursuant to their license.
(c) Any reference in any statute to Section 1200 shall be deemed and construed to also be a reference to this section.
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