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1999 SESSION
HB 2565 Access to health specialists.
Introduced by: Robert D. Orrock, Sr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Access to specialists. Requires each (i) insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical or major medical coverage on an expense incurred basis, (ii) corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, and (iii) health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services to provide access to specialists for those individuals with ongoing special conditions. Once such covered individual is referred to the specialist, the specialist may begin treating the individual in the same manner as the individual’s primary care provider would otherwise be permitted, including the ability to authorize tests, procedures, referrals, and other medical services. Each insurer, corporation or health maintenance organization is required to develop procedures whereby a covered individual with an ongoing special condition may receive a standing referral to a specialist. Insurers, corporations, and health maintenance organizations may require a specialist to provide written notification to the individual’s primary care physician, including a description of the services rendered.
FULL TEXT
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 994324254 pdf
- 02/01/99 House: Committee substitute printed 990470388-H1 pdf
HISTORY
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 994324254
- 01/21/99 House: Referred to Committee on Corporations, Insurance and Banking
- 01/26/99 House: Assigned to C. I. B. sub-committee: 3
- 02/01/99 House: Reported from C. I. B. w/sub. (23-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/99 House: Committee substitute printed 990470388-H1
- 02/03/99 House: Read first time
- 02/04/99 House: Read second time
- 02/04/99 House: Committee substitute agreed to 990470388-H1
- 02/04/99 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. 990470388-H1
- 02/05/99 House: Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/05/99 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/08/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/22/99 Senate: Left in Commerce and Labor
- 02/22/99 Senate: Incorporated in other legislation (HB871-Griffith)