{"data":{"id":"us-ca/wic-14107.3","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"WIC § 14107.3","heading":"","body":"Any person who knowingly and willfully charges, solicits, accepts, or receives, in addition to any amount payable under this chapter, any gift, money, contribution, donation, or other consideration as a precondition to providing services or merchandise to a Medi-Cal beneficiary for any service or merchandise in the Medi-Cal program’s scope of benefits in addition to a claim submitted to the Medi-Cal program under this chapter or Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), except either:\n(1) To collect payments due under a contractual or legal entitlement pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 14000; or\n(2) To bill a long-term care patient or representative for the amount of the patient’s share of the cost; or\n(3) As provided under Section 14019.3, is punishable upon a first conviction by imprisonment in the county jail for not longer than one year or pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, or by a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both such imprisonment and fine. A second or subsequent conviction shall be punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code.","path":["Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC","DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES [10000. - 18999.98.]","PART 3. AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE [11000. - 15771.]","CHAPTER 7. Basic Health Care [14000. - 14199.97.]","ARTICLE 3. Administration [14100. - 14124.16.]"],"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":"fbce5078db7c4d19ec6bbd587843a152985de2eb7ffc2ed14528b33ffe7ca1d6","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/wic-14107.2","next":"us-ca/wic-14107.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}