A health care service plan that offers or provides one or more podiatry services, as defined in Section 2472 of the Business and Professions Code, as a specific podiatric plan benefit shall not refuse to give reasonable consideration to affiliation with podiatrists for the provision of service solely on the basis that they are podiatrists.
(Added by renumbering Section 1373.7 (as added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 163) by Stats. 1986, Ch. 718, Sec. 4.)