Relating to direct health care agreements, and including effective date and applicability provisions

This bill relates to direct health care agreements. Current law allows certain primary care health professionals to enter into a direct primary care agreement with a patient to provide certain primary care health services for a set service charge that covers a specific period of time. The bill broadens the types of health care professionals that may enter into a direct health care agreement to include health care professionals that perform health care services. “Health care services” is defined in the bill as services for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease, and includes dental care services. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to direct health care agreements that are fully executed on or after the date of enactment.