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2018 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health

Cosgrove (Chairman), Black, Barker, Lewis, Suetterlein

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens
Date of Meeting: February 6, 2018
Time and Place: 4:00 p.m. - Senate Subcommittee Room 2, 5th Floor

S.B. 663

Patron: McPike

Health benefit plan networks; air ambulance providers; duties of health care providers. Requires a health care provider, before arranging for air ambulance services for an individual known to be covered under a health benefit plan, to provide the covered person or his authorized representative a written disclosure and obtain the covered person's or his representative's signature on the disclosure document. The disclosure includes statements that (i) the air ambulance provider may be an out-of-network provider; (ii) if so, the air ambulance provider has not agreed to hold covered persons harmless from payment of any balance due after receiving any payment from the carrier under the covered person's health benefit plan; (iii) indicate the range of the typical charges for out-of-network air ambulance services for which the covered person may be responsible; and (iv) the covered person or his representative may agree to accept and pay the charges of the air ambulance provider as an out-of-network provider, contact the covered person's carrier for additional assistance, or rely on other rights and remedies that may be available under state or federal law. The disclosure is also required to include a statement that the covered person or the covered person's authorized representative may obtain a list of air ambulance providers from the covered person's carrier that are participating providers and may request that the health care provider arrange for air ambulance providers that are participating providers. The measure also provides that if the health care provider is unable to provide the written disclosure or obtain the signature of the covered person or his authorized representative, the health care provider is required to document the reason therefor.

S.B. 762

Patron: Barker

Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; definition of "licensed mental health professional." Directs the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (State Board) to amend regulations governing licensure of providers of behavioral health services to include (i) behavior analysts and (ii) assistant behavior analysts in the definition of "licensed mental health professional." The bill directs the State Board to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the act to be effective within 280 days of its enactment.

S.B. 831

Patron: Reeves

Practice of funeral services; sale of certain items. Excludes from the definition of "practice of funeral services" the sale to the public of receptacles and containers used for burial, entombment, or other final disposition of a dead human body or the remains thereof.