Health & Safety Code 1262.8(b) (added by AB 1203, 2008)

If a patient with an emergency medical condition is covered by a health care service plan that requires prior authorization for poststabilization care, a noncontracting hospital shall seek to contact the patient's health care service plan or its contracting medical provider for authorization to provide poststabilization care. Upon request of the patient's health care service plan or its contracting medical provider, the noncontracting hospital shall provide the treating physician and surgeon's diagnosis and any other relevant information reasonably necessary for the health care service plan or the plan's contracting medical provider to make a decision to authorize poststabilization care or to assume management of the patient's care by prompt transfer.