{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-4999","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 4999","heading":"","body":"“Telephone medical advice service” means any business entity that employs, or contracts or subcontracts, directly or indirectly, with, the full-time equivalent of five or more persons functioning as health care professionals, whose primary function is to provide telephone medical advice, that provides telephone medical advice services to a patient at a California address. “Telephone medical advice service” does not include a medical group that operates in multiple locations in California if no more than five full-time equivalent persons at any one location perform telephone medical advice services and those persons limit the telephone medical advice services to patients being treated at that location.","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS [500. - 4999.202.]","CHAPTER 15. Telephone Medical Advice Services [4999. - 4999.7.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"030f04fb857bbc12397cfd59e271e9962894bd1b0997fc548bfd5f2979604502","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-4998.5","next":"us-ca/bpc-4999.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}