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2000 SESSION

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HB 660 Health insurance; access to emergency services.

Introduced by: George W. Grayson | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Health insurance; access to ambulance services. Prohibits health insurers, health maintenance organizations and corporations providing accident and sickness subscription contracts from requiring a person covered under such policy, contract or plan to obtain prior authorization before accessing an emergency 911 system or other state, county or municipal emergency medical system for ambulance services, and from establishing an emergency medical response and transportation system in competition with a governmental 911 or other emergency system.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Health insurance; access to ambulance services. Prohibits (i) insurers proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis, (ii) corporations providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts and (iii) health maintenance organizations providing a health care plan for health care services from requiring a person covered under such policy, contract or plan to obtain prior authorization before accessing an emergency 911 system or other state, county or municipal emergency medical system for ambulance services, and from establishing an emergency medical response and transportation system in competition with a governmental 911 or other emergency system.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Health insurance; access to emergency services. Prohibits (i) insurers proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis, (ii) corporations providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts and (iii) health maintenance organizations providing a health care plan for health care services from requiring a person covered under such policy, contract or plan to obtain prior authorization before accessing an emergency 911 system or other state, county or municipal emergency medical system for emergency services, and from establishing an emergency medical response and transportation system in competition with a governmental 911 or other emergency system.