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2019 SESSION
HB 2538 Health insurance; payment of out-of-network providers, patient access to elective services.
Introduced by: R. Lee Ware | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Balance billing; elective services. Requires a facility where a covered person receives scheduled elective services to post the required notice or inform the covered person of the required notice at the time of pre-admission or pre-registration. The bill also requires such a facility to inform the covered person or his legal representative of the names of all provider groups providing health care services at the facility, that consultation with the covered person's managed care plan is recommended to determine if the provider groups providing health care services at the facility are in-network providers, and that the covered person may be financially responsible for health care services performed by a provider that is not an in-network provider, in addition to any cost-sharing requirements.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103960D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19105085D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/21/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2538ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/18/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/09/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103960D
- 01/09/19 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/15/19 House: Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/29/19 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/19 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19105085D-H1
- 02/03/19 House: Read first time
- 02/04/19 House: Read second time
- 02/04/19 House: Committee substitute agreed to 19105085D-H1
- 02/04/19 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2538H1
- 02/05/19 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/11/19 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/19 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/15/19 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/18/19 Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/19 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/19 House: Enrolled
- 02/21/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2538ER)
- 02/21/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/21/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/28/19 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- 02/28/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/18/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 432 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/18/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432)