{"data":{"id":"us-ca/wic-14254","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"WIC § 14254","heading":"","body":"(a) “Primary care physician” is a physician who has the responsibility for providing initial and primary care to patients, for maintaining the continuity of patient care, and for initiating referral for specialist care. A primary care physician shall be either a physician who has limited his or her practice of medicine to general practice or who is a board-certified or board-eligible internist, pediatrician, obstetrician-gynecologist, or family practitioner.\n(b) A nonphysician medical practitioner, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 14088, who is supervised by a primary care physician, has the responsibility for providing initial and primary care to patients, for maintaining the continuity of patient care, and for initiating referral for specialist care.","path":["Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC","DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES [10000. - 18999.98.]","PART 3. AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE [11000. - 15771.]","CHAPTER 8. Prepaid Plans [14200. - 14499.77.]","ARTICLE 2. Definitions [14250. - 14265.]"],"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":"d5e47aaa66cc8050219aca86ba422ab3982e15437a348050d5dbafc7f1cb9baa","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/wic-14253","next":"us-ca/wic-14255"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}