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1998 SESSION

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HJ 216 Study; managed care organization liability for health care.

Introduced by: William J. Howell | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Study; Managed care organization liability for health care decisions. This resolution would have established a joint subcommittee to study managed care organizations' liability for health care decisions in the Commonwealth. The joint subcommittee was charged to (i) identify current laws allowing patients to fairly recover damages from such organizations; (ii) determine how best the Department of Health and other state agencies may proceed to educate Virginia's citizens concerning their rights furnished by such laws; (iii) assess managed care organizations' liability for controlling the quality of care and the sufficiency of Virginia's laws enabling or hindering the ability of patients to recover damages from managed care organization when harm has been caused by a managed care organization's negligent decision to delay or deny needed medical care; and (iv) develop a statutory basis for patients to assert claims against such organizations, as well as their employees, agents, or representatives, who fail to exercise ordinary care when making health care treatment decisions. However, the resolution was passed by indefinitely in lieu of a letter from the Speaker to the House Courts Committee to conduct the study.


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