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2018 SESSION
SB 721 Health care services; practitioners to provide to patient payment estimates.
Introduced by: Amanda F. Chase | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Health care services; payment estimates. Requires practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine and hospitals to provide a patient or the representative of a patient scheduled to receive a nonemergency procedure, test, or service to be performed by the practitioner or hospital, at least three days in advance of the date of such procedure, test, or service, an estimate of the payment amount for which the participant will be responsible. Under current law, the requirement to provide such estimate applies only to hospitals for elective procedures, tests, or services and only upon request.
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HISTORY
- 01/10/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101942D
- 01/10/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/26/18 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
- 02/01/18 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N)