AB 371: Dental coverage.

This bill aims to improve dental coverage in California by requiring health care service plans and insurers to provide better access to dental care. Plans and insurers must offer urgent dental appointments within 48 hours, nonurgent appointments within 18 business days, and preventive care within 20 business days of a request. They must also pay noncontracting dental providers directly for covered services if an enrollee or insured assigns benefits to them. Dentists are subject to geographic accessibility standards, and plans and insurers must report comprehensive information about their dental provider networks. The bill also requires plans and insurers to notify enrollees or insureds when they pay a noncontracting dental provider and inform them that the out-of-network cost may count towards their maximum.