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1997 SESSION
HB 2062 Health maintenance organizations; access to emergency services.
Introduced by: William P. Robinson, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Health maintenance organizations; access to emergency services. Provides members of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) with access to a system of 24-hour emergency services. This bill directs HMOs to provide either 24-hour access to medical care or 24-hour access by telephone to a physician or licensed health professional with appropriate medical training. HMOs must reimburse hospital emergency facilities for medical screening and stabilization rendered to meet the requirements of the Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act if (i) the HMO or its designee or the member's primary care physician authorizes, directs, or refers a member to use a hospital emergency facility or (ii) the HMO fails to provide a system for providing 24-hour access. HMOs must provide to their members a description of the procedures to be followed for emergency services.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/97 House: Presented & ordered printed 978046432 pdf
- 01/23/97 House: Printed as engrossed 978046432-E pdf
- 02/19/97 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2062ER) pdf
- 03/14/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/97 House: Presented & ordered printed 978046432
- 01/14/97 House: Referred to Committee on Corporations, Insurance and Banking
- 01/21/97 House: Reported from C. I. B. w/amds. (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/97 House: Read first time
- 01/23/97 House: Read second time
- 01/23/97 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 01/23/97 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 01/23/97 House: Printed as engrossed 978046432-E
- 01/24/97 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/97 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/97 House: Communicated to Senate
- 01/27/97 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 1-N)
- 01/27/97 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/10/97 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/97 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/97 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/97 Senate: Read third time
- 02/12/97 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/97 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/97 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2062ER)
- 02/25/97 House: Enrolled
- 02/25/97 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/26/97 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/06/97 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 139 (effective 7/1/97)
- 03/14/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139)