(a)  As used in this chapter, “clinic” also means an organized outpatient health facility which, pursuant to Section 1204.1, provides direct psychological advice, services, or treatment to patients who remain less than 24 hours, and which may also provide diagnostic or therapeutic services authorized under Chapter 6.6 (commencing with Section 2900) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code to patients in the home as an incident to care provided at the clinic facility.

(b)  Psychological clinics, as defined in Section 1204.1, shall not be considered primary care clinics for the purposes of any state grants, state loans, or other state aid.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1200.1

  • clinic: means an organized outpatient health facility that provides direct medical, surgical, dental, optometric, or podiatric advice, services, or treatment to patients who remain less than 24 hours, and that may also provide diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients in the home as an incident to care provided at the clinic facility. See California Health and Safety Code 1200
  • Primary care clinics: means all the types of clinics specified in subdivision (a) of Section 1204, including community clinics and free clinics. See California Health and Safety Code 1200
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit psychological clinics from receiving payment to which they are otherwise entitled from the state or in which the state participates financially, for services rendered pursuant to their license.

(c)  Any reference in any statute to Section 1200 shall be deemed and construed to also be a reference to this section.

(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1315.)

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