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2018 SESSION
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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HISTORY
- 01/10/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103179D
- 01/10/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/09/18 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote