{"code":"BPC","codeName":"Business and Professions Code","section":"4999","citation":"Bus. & Prof. Code, § 4999","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS [500. - 4999.202.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/division-2"},{"name":"CHAPTER 15. Telephone Medical Advice Services [4999. - 4999.7.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/division-2/chapter-15"}],"history":"Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 799, Sec. 28.   (SB 1039)   Effective January 1, 2017.","effective":"2017-01-01","html":"<p>“Telephone medical advice service” means any business entity that employs, or contracts or subcontracts, directly or indirectly, with, the full-time equivalent of five or more persons functioning as health care professionals, whose primary function is to provide telephone medical advice, that provides telephone medical advice services to a patient at a California address. “Telephone medical advice service” does not include a medical group that operates in multiple locations in California if no more than five full-time equivalent persons at any one location perform telephone medical advice services and those persons limit the telephone medical advice services to patients being treated at that location.</p>","text":"“Telephone medical advice service” means any business entity that employs, or contracts or subcontracts, directly or indirectly, with, the full-time equivalent of five or more persons functioning as health care professionals, whose primary function is to provide telephone medical advice, that provides telephone medical advice services to a patient at a California address. “Telephone medical advice service” does not include a medical group that operates in multiple locations in California if no more than five full-time equivalent persons at any one location perform telephone medical advice services and those persons limit the telephone medical advice services to patients being treated at that location.","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/telephone-medical-advice-services-4999","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}