10024. (Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 188, Sec. 34.)

Every contract or agreement for private health care coverage entered into or renewed after January 1, 1972, is deemed to provide for payment to a publicly funded health care program for the actual cost that the program incurs in providing health care items or rendering health care services to any party or beneficiary of that contract or agreement to the extent of the benefits provided under the terms of the policy for the items provided or services rendered.