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SJ 57 Out-of-network health care providers; JLARC to study balance billing by providers.

Introduced by: Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Study; JLARC; balance billing by out-of-network health care providers; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study balance billing by out-of-network health care providers. The resolution directs JLARC to (i) examine the practice by hospitals of independently contracting with out-of-network physicians to provide emergency care; (ii) identify the costs of balance billing in circumstances when consumers receive health care services at an in-network hospital's emergency care department network from an out-of-network provider; and (iii) identify ways to protect covered patients from balance billing in situations where a patient is not able to select the provider on the basis of whether the provider is in his plan's network.


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