Health care coverage: dental services.

Existing law, 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 and makes a willful violation of the act's requirements a crime. Existing law imposes specified coverage and disclosure requirements on health care service plans, including specialized plans, that cover dental services. Existing law, on and after January 1, 2025, prohibits a health care service plan from issuing, amending, renewing, or offering a plan contract that imposes a dental waiting period provision in a large group plan or preexisting condition provision for any plan. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.