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SB 1685 Health insurance; credentialing, mental health professionals.
Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Health insurance; credentialing; mental health professionals. Requires health insurers and other carriers that credential the mental health professionals in their provider networks to establish reasonable protocols and procedures for reimbursing a mental health professional who has submitted a completed credentialing application to a carrier, after being credentialed by the carrier, for mental health services provided to covered persons during the period in which the applicant's completed credentialing application is pending. The measure requires health maintenance organizations that issue Medicaid coverage to provide reimbursement to physicians and mental health professionals during the credentialing process. Under current law, Medicare Advantage plans and Medicaid plans are excluded from such requirement. The measure provides that health insurers that credential mental health professionals in their network may establish reasonable protocols and procedures for credentialing private mental health agencies. The bill establishes minimum standards that must be maintained by credentialed private mental health agencies.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/19 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 19103738D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19105550D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1685ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/21/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/14/19 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 19103738D
- 01/14/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/31/19 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19105550D-S1
- 02/01/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/19 Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/19 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/19 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 19105550D-S1
- 02/04/19 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1685S1
- 02/04/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/19 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/19 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/19 House: Read first time
- 02/06/19 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/14/19 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/19 House: Read second time
- 02/19/19 House: Read third time
- 02/19/19 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 House: Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- 02/19/19 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/19 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/22/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1685ER)
- 02/22/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/22/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/04/19 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- 03/04/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/21/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 689 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/21/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689)