No contract between a risk-bearing organization and a health care service plan that is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed in this state on or after July 1, 2000, shall include any provision that requires a provider to accept rates or methods of payment specified in contracts with health care service plan affiliates or nonaffiliates unless the provision has been first negotiated and agreed to between the health care service plan and the risk-bearing organization.
(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 529, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2000.)