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Senate Committee on Education and Health Subcommittee Health Care

Whipple (Chairman), Martin, Newman, Barker, Northam

Clerk: Jocelyn R. Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: February 5, 2008
Time and Place: Tuesday, 1/2 hr. after adjournment, 4th Fl East, Conf. Rm. G.A.B.

S.B. 396 Health care; Department of Health to post on its website list of average costs.

Patron: Edwards

Health care costs; estimates and average costs.  Requires the Department of Health to post on its website a list of the average costs for 25 common outpatient procedures performed at each licensed hospital. Also the measure requires hospitals to provide upon request a written estimate of the total costs reasonably expected to be billed to a patient for non-emergency care.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 32.1-23, 32.1-276.6, and 32.1-276.9 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-135.3 and by adding in Chapter 7.2 of Title 32.1 a section numbered 32.1-276.12, relating to costs for health care.

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