§ 14254
113 words·~1 min read·
/ca/welfare-and-institutions-code/14254A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
(a)“Primary care physician” is a physician who has the responsibility for providing initial and primary care to patients, for maintaining the continuity of patient care, and for initiating referral for specialist care. A primary care physician shall be either a physician who has limited his or her practice of medicine to general practice or who is a board-certified or board-eligible internist, pediatrician, obstetrician-gynecologist, or family practitioner.
(b)A nonphysician medical practitioner, as defined in subdivision
(c)of Section 14088, who is supervised by a primary care physician, has the responsibility for providing initial and primary care to patients, for maintaining the continuity of patient care, and for initiating referral for specialist care.