{"id":3509,"date":"2022-05-14T08:28:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T08:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/?page_id=3509"},"modified":"2022-05-20T23:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:45:03","slug":"business-and-professions-code-bpc-2418","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/business-and-professions-code-bpc-2418\/","title":{"rendered":"Business and Professions Code &#8211; BPC 2418"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l35lv64p-00655123a05ffbdb137017179b60065e\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-l35lv64p-00655123a05ffbdb137017179b60065e{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-l35lv64p-00655123a05ffbdb137017179b60065e .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-l35lv64p-00655123a05ffbdb137017179b60065e 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class=\"subsection\">\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(1)\u2002The State of California is facing a growing crisis in physician supply due, in part, to difficulties in recruiting and retaining physicians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(2)\u2002This crisis is particularly harsh for facilities operated by the state and local governments due to the difficulties of funding full-time medical staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(3)\u2002Locum tenens physicians provide a critical source of medical services that virtually all hospitals in California use at one time or another every year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(4)\u2002The great majority of California hospitals, and many medical groups and other providers, including many state-supported facilities, use locum tenens agencies either continuously or from time to time to help fill their medical staffing needs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(5)\u2002Most locum tenens agencies are barred from employing physicians under the corporate practice doctrine (Article 18 (commencing with\u00a0<span class=\"cite\">Section 2400\u00a0<\/span>)) and, thus, do not employ the physicians whose locum tenens services they arrange.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(b)\u2002Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a \u201clocum tenens agency\u201d shall not be deemed to be an employer, employment agency, employment counseling service, job listing service, nurse&#8217;s registry, temporary services employer, or leasing employer of a licensee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(c)\u2002A locum tenens agency is an individual or entity that meets all of the following requirements:<\/p>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(1)\u2002Contracts with clients or customers to identify licensees willing to perform locum tenens services and to arrange for the licensees to perform locum tenens services for the clients or customers on a temporary, nonpermanent basis .\u00a0<span class=\"footnote-reference\">\u20091<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(2)\u2002Arranges for the licensees to perform locum tenens services only to those clients and customers that are legally authorized to enter into independent contractor arrangements with licensees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(3)\u2002Does not determine the rates of payment made to a licensee providing locum tenens services, or determine the hours of work by the licensee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(4)\u2002Receives payment directly from its clients or customers for its services which, to the degree that the payment includes payment for the locum tenens services, remits the payment for the locum tenens services in full directly to the licensee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(5)\u2002Charges fees that are reasonably related to the value of the services that the locum tenens agency provides its clients and customers, and that are in no way related to the quantity or value of locum tenens services provided by the licensee. \u2002This section does not prohibit a locum tenens agency from charging its clients and customers based on the number of days or hours that the locum tenens services are provided or based on the particular speciality of the locum tenens services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(d)\u2002A locum tenens agency shall not employ a licensee to perform locum tenens services, nor shall it interfere with or attempt to influence the clinical judgment of a licensee providing locum tenens services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(e)\u2002It shall be a rebuttable presumption that the relationship between the client or customer of the locum tenens agency and the licensee providing locum tenens services is one of an independent contractor, pursuant to\u00a0<span class=\"cite\">Section 656 of the Unemployment Insurance Code\u00a0<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(f)\u2002For purposes of this section, \u201c<span class=\"wordphrase\">licensee<\/span>\u201d means a physician and surgeon licensed under this chapter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(g)\u2002It is the intent of the Legislature that this section confirm and be declaratory of, rather than change, existing law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(h)\u2002Nothing in this section shall apply to a category of health care professionals other than those specified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a 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