Section 4913. Conflict of interest

1. No external appeal agent or officer,
  director, or management employee  thereof;  or  clinical  peer  reviewer
  employed  or  engaged thereby to conduct any external appeal pursuant to
  this title, shall have any material professional  affiliation,  material
  familial   affiliation,   material   financial   affiliation,  or  other
  affiliation  prescribed  pursuant  to  regulation,  with  any   of   the
  following:
    (a) the health care plan;
    (b)  any  officer, director, or management employee of the health care
  plan;
    (c) any health care provider, physician's medical  group,  independent
  practice association, or provider of pharmaceutical products or services
  or  durable medical equipment, proposing to provide or supply the health
  service;
    (d) the facility at which the health service would be provided;
    (e) the developer or manufacturer  of  the  principal  health  service
  which is the subject of the appeal; or
    (f)  the  enrollee  whose  health  care  service is the subject of the
  appeal, or the enrollee's designee.
    2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this  section,
  the  commissioner  shall promulgate regulations to minimize any conflict
  of interest where such conflict may be unavoidable.