Title: Relating to provider networks.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2025-01-13
Last Action Date: Effective date, January 1, 2026.. 2025-07-25
Summary: The bill article expands network rules for some health benefit plans and mandates the Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) to adopt specific rules. It permits some health and dental plans to use remote providers to meet network rules and modifies requirements for large employer health benefit plans. The plan also permits telemedicine healthcare providers for dental-only plans. The department shall adopt by rule standards for evaluating, under subsection (3) of this section, the adequacy of a carrier’s network of providers in meeting the requirements of subsection (1) of this section and ensuring access by enrollees to initial and follow-up care without unreasonable delay. Standards shall be consistent with federal standards, including 45 C.F.R. 156.230, as in effect on January 1, 2025, but may incorporate flexibility to address issues specific to this state. Standards shall account for designations of a health professional shortage area and access to services based on provider and specialist availability in a geographic area.
Description: Digest: Expands network rules for some health benefit plans. Makes DCBS adopt certain rules. Allows some health and dental plans to use remote providers to meet network rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3). Expands network adequacy requirements to health benefit plans offered to large employers and modifies requirements. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt specified standards for network adequacy. Permits a health benefit plan and a dental-only plan to use telemedicine health care providers to meet network adequacy standards only as permitted by rule adopted by the department.
Location: US-OR
Title: Relating to health insurance contract negotiations.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2025-04-16
Last Action Date: In committee upon adjournment.. 2025-06-27
Description: Digest: This Act makes a process for some health insurers and some health providers to choose to mediate and arbitrate when they are not able to agree on a new contract. Tells the Governor to make the final decision and permits penalties. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Establishes a voluntary mediation and arbitration process that certain health insurers and providers may participate in if the insurer and provider are unable to reach an agreement during a contract renewal negotiation. Establishes that the Governor, or a designee, shall issue a final determination in the arbitration process and may impose penalties for failure to comply.
Location: US-OR
Title: Relating to health benefit plan preauthorization requirements for certain health care services and the direction of utilization review by physicians.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2025-03-05
Last Action Date: Effective on 9/1/25. 2025-06-20
Summary: This bill amends the Insurance Code to establish procedures for the Texas Medical Board to inquire into the appropriateness of utilization reviews conducted by physicians. If the Board believes a physician directed a review arbitrarily or without medical basis, it may request the department to assess whether the health service under review is covered by the insurance plan. If so, the Board can compel the physician to provide relevant documents and may restrict or suspend their license if found in violation. Additionally, health maintenance organizations and insurers are required to submit annual reports detailing exemptions and independent reviews of utilization determinations, with these reports becoming public information.
Location: US-TX
Title: Provide for pricing transparency requirements for hospitals
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2025-02-24
Last Action Date: (H) Died in Process. 2025-05-20
Location: US-MT
Title: Revise laws related to prior authorization
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2025-02-25
Last Action Date: Chapter Number Assigned. 2025-05-16
Summary: This bill prohibits health insurance issuers from requiring prior authorization for specific categories of prescription drugs. These include controlled substances listed in 21 CFR 1308.15, medications for substance use disorders within FDA dosage limits, and certain inhaled medications (corticosteroids, short-acting beta-agonists, and combination inhalers) as well as short-acting and long-acting insulin for diabetes. However, if an individual has multiple prescriptions for the same type of drug, prior authorization may be required for all but one prescription. If a prior authorization request is denied, the issuer must provide a written notice explaining the decision and list alternative therapeutic options covered by the insurer's formulary.
Location: US-MT
Title: "An Act relating to settlement of health insurance claims; relating to allowable charges for health care services or supplies; and providing for an effective date."
Current Status: In Senate
Introduction Date: 2025-03-05
Last Action Date: (S) Minutes (SL&C). 2025-05-14
Summary: This bill requires the establishment of standards for the settlement of health insurance claims in Alaska. In the absence of a contract between health care insurers and providers, the director will set regulations for allowable charges for health care services and supplies. These charges must be based on a statistically credible methodology using the most current data reflecting amounts charged by providers over a 12-month period, ensuring uniformity across the state. The allowable charge cannot be less than the 75th percentile of charges for similar services, with specific provisions for primary care providers, who will receive a minimum of 450 percent of the federal Medicare fee schedule.
Location: US-AK
Title: "An Act relating to insurance; establishing standards for health insurance provider networks; and providing for an effective date."
Current Status: In Senate
Introduction Date: 2025-03-05
Last Action Date: (S) Minutes (SL&C). 2025-05-14
Summary: This bill establishes minimum standards for health insurance provider networks in Alaska. It requires health care insurers to include all licensed hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and mental health or substance abuse facilities, as well as all licensed physicians, physician assistants, and advanced practice registered nurses employed by these facilities, in their provider networks. Additionally, the bill mandates that insurers maintain a sufficient number of providers in each contracting region to meet specific percentage thresholds based on the total actively practising providers in various specialities.
Location: US-AK
Title: Relates to prohibited hospital interference with patient care and requires examination and emergency treatment of patients; repealer
Current Status: In Senate
Introduction Date: 2025-01-15
Last Action Date: PRINT NUMBER 2165A. 2025-03-24
Description: Prohibits hospital interference with patient care where the practitioner is acting in good faith and within the scope of their practice; defines emergency medical conditions; requires appropriate medical screening and stabilizing treatment of persons in an emergency department, including pregnant persons, or appropriate transfer.
Location: US-NY
Title: Ins-Billing/Network Adequacy
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-31
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2025-01-07
Description: Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes a change in provisions concerning disclosure of nonparticipating provider limited benefits. Adds reproductive health care to the definition of "ancillary services". Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Provides that an insurer providing a network plan shall file a description with the Director of Insurance of written policies and procedures on how the network plan will provide 24-hour, 7-day per week access to reproductive health care. Provides that the Department of Insurance shall consider establishing ratios for reproductive health care physicians or other providers. Effective July 1, 2024, except that certain changes take effect January 1, 2025.
Location: US-IL
Title: Ins-Provider Nondiscrimination
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-31
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2025-01-07
Description: Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group health plan or an accident and health insurer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall not discriminate with respect to participation under the plan or coverage against any health care provider who is acting within the scope of that provider's license or certification under applicable State law. Provides that nothing in the provisions shall be construed as preventing a group health plan, an accident and health insurer, or the Director of Insurance from establishing varying reimbursement rates based on quality or performance measures.
Location: US-IL
Title: Health care coverage: provider directories.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-13
Last Action Date: From Senate committee without further action.. 2024-11-30
Description: AB 236, as amended, Holden. Health care coverage: provider directories. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan and a health insurer that contracts with providers for alternative rates of payment to publish and maintain a provider directory or directories with information on contracting providers that deliver health care services enrollees or insureds, and requires a health care service plan and health insurer to regularly update its printed and online provider directory or directories, as specified. Existing law authorizes the departments to require a plan or insurer to provide coverage for all covered health care services provided to an enrollee or insured who reasonably relied on materially inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information contained in a health plan’s provider directory or directories.This bill would require a plan or insurer to annually verify and delete inaccurate listings from its provider directories, and would require a provider directory to be 60% accurate on July 1, 2025, with increasing required percentage accuracy benchmarks to be met each year until the directories are 95% accurate on or before July 1, 2028. The bill would subject a plan or insurer to administrative penalties for failure to meet the prescribed benchmarks. The bill would require a plan or insurer to arrange care and provide coverage for all covered health care services provided to an enrollee or insured who reasonably relied on inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information contained in a health plan or policy’s provider directory or directories and to reimburse the provider the contracted amount for those services. The bill would prohibit a provider from collecting an additional amount from an enrollee or insured other than the applicable in-network cost sharing. The bill would require a plan or insurer to provide information about in-network providers to enrollees and insureds upon request, and would limit the cost-sharing amounts an enrollee or insured is required to pay for services from those providers under specified circumstances.On or before January 1, 2025, this bill would authorize the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to develop uniform formats for plans and insurers to use to request directory information from providers and to establish a methodology and processes to ensure accuracy of provider directories and consistency with other laws, regulations, or standards. The bill would require the health plan or the insurer, as applicable, to ensure the accuracy of a request to add back a provider who was previously removed from a directory and approve the request within 10 business days of receipt, if accurate.Because a violation of the bill’s requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Location: US-CA
Title: Health care coverage: prior authorization.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-15
Last Action Date: From Assembly without further action.. 2024-11-30
Description: SB 598, as amended, Skinner. Health care coverage: prior authorization. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally authorizes a health care service plan or health insurer to use prior authorization and other utilization review or utilization management functions, under which a licensed physician or a licensed health care professional who is competent to evaluate specific clinical issues may approve, modify, delay, or deny requests for health care services based on medical necessity. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer, including those plans or insurers that delegate utilization review or utilization management functions to medical groups, independent practice associations, or to other contracting providers, to comply with specified requirements and limitations on their utilization review or utilization management functions. Existing law requires the criteria or guidelines used to determine whether or not to authorize, modify, or deny health care services to be developed with involvement from actively practicing health care providers.On or after January 1, 2026, this bill would prohibit a health care service plan or health insurer from requiring a contracted health professional to complete or obtain a prior authorization for any covered health care services if the plan or insurer approved or would have approved not less than 90% of the prior authorization requests they submitted in the most recent completed one-year contracted period. The bill would set standards for this exemption and its denial, rescission, and appeal. The bill would authorize a plan or insurer to evaluate the continuation of an exemption not more than once every 12 months, and would authorize a plan or insurer to rescind an exemption only at the end of the 12-month period and only if specified criteria are met. The bill would require a plan or insurer to provide an electronic prior authorization process. The bill would also require a plan or insurer to have a process for annually monitoring prior authorization approval, modification, appeal, and denial rates to identify services, items, and supplies that are regularly approved, and to discontinue prior authorization on those services, items, and supplies that are approved 95% of the time. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Location: US-CA
Title: Prior Authorization-Emergency
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-04-27
Last Action Date: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0659. 2024-07-19
Description: Amends the Prior Authorization Reform Act. Changes the definition of "emergency services" to provide that for the purposes of the provisions, emergency services are not required to be provided in the emergency department of a hospital. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, a health insurance issuer or a contracted utilization review organization may not require prior authorization or approval by the health plan for emergency services. Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Prior Authorization Reform Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, a health insurance issuer or a contracted utilization review organization may not require a prior authorization for drug therapies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of hereditary bleeding disorders any more frequently than 6 months or the length of time the prescription for that dosage remains valid, whichever period is shorter. Effective January 1, 2026.
Location: US-IL
Title: Medicaid; modifying various provisions of the Ensuring Access to Medicaid Act. Emergency.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2024-05-02
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 06/14/2024. 2024-06-14
Location: US-OK
Title: An Act amending Title 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in regulation of insurers and related persons generally, providing for payment choice; and imposing penalties.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2024-05-06
Last Action Date: Referred to Banking & Insurance. 2024-06-07
Location: US-PA
Title: Relates to utilization review program standards and pre-authorization for certain health care services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-31
Last Action Date: PRINT NUMBER 3400A. 2024-06-03
Description: Relates to utilization review program standards; requires use of evidence-based and peer reviewed clinical review criteria; relates to prescription drug formulary changes and pre-authorization for certain health care services.
Location: US-NY
Title: Insurance: health insurers; equitable coverage for behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment; provide for. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3406hh.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-01-18
Last Action Date: ASSIGNED PA 0041'24. 2024-05-22
Location: US-MI
Title: Health insurance; Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act; definitions; disclosure and review of prior authorization; adverse determinations; consultation; reviewing physicians; utilization review entity; exception; retrospective denial; length of prior authorization; continuity of care; standard for transmission of authorization; failure to comply; severability; effective date.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2024-02-05
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 05/15/2024. 2024-05-15
Location: US-OK
Title: Enacts the health care consumer and provider protection act relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-14
Last Action Date: PRINT NUMBER 4785A. 2024-05-13
Description: Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans in certain counties; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident or sickness, including an individual, group, blanket or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement offered by certain enumerated entities.
Location: US-NY
Title: Enacting the ensuring transparency in prior authorization act to impose requirements and limitations on the use of prior authorization in healthcare.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-02
Last Action Date: Died in Committee. 2024-04-30
Location: US-KS
Title: Enacting the ensuring transparency in prior authorization act to impose requirements and limitations on the use of prior authorization in healthcare.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-02
Last Action Date: Died in Committee. 2024-04-30
Location: US-KS
Title: Medicaid; providing hospice coverage for Medicaid members; requirements for coverage; effective date.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2024-02-05
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 04/30/2024. 2024-04-30
Location: US-OK
Title: Poor persons; ensuring access to Medicaid Act; definition; effective date.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2024-02-05
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 04/29/2024. 2024-04-29
Location: US-OK
Title: Medicaid; modifying requirements for participation in certain premium assistance program; modifying certain authority of the Insurance Department. Effective date. Emergency.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2024-02-05
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 04/23/2024. 2024-04-24
Location: US-OK
Title: An Act to Create a Liaison Program and Complaint Process Within the Bureau of Insurance for Independent Health Care Providers
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-04-05
Last Action Date: Signed by the Governor. 2024-04-02
Location: US-ME
Title: DC Health Care Alliance Enrollment Rulemaking Approval Emergency Act of 2024
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2024-01-10
Last Action Date: Withdrawn. 2024-03-29
Location: US-DC
Title: Enacts the health care consumer and provider protection act relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-30
Last Action Date: REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS. 2024-03-19
Description: Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans in certain counties; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident or sickness, including an individual, group, blanket or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement offered by certain enumerated entities.
Location: US-NY
Title: An Act to Provide for Consistent Billing Practices by Health Care Providers
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-04-05
Last Action Date: Signed by the Governor. 2024-03-06
Location: US-ME
Title: Health plan companies required to establish appeal process for providers to access if provider's contract is terminated for cause, and health plan company prohibited from terminating provider's contract without cause.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-15
Last Action Date: Author added Frazier. 2024-02-26
Location: US-MN
Title: Health plan companies establishment of an appeal process for providers to access if the provider's contract is terminated for cause requirement; health plan company termination of a provider's contract without cause prohibition
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-06
Last Action Date: Withdrawn and re-referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection. 2024-02-19
Location: US-MN
Title: Prior Authorization Reform Amendment Act of 2023
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-02-07
Last Action Date: Law L25-0100, Effective from Jan 17, 2024 Published in DC Register Vol 71 and Page 001648. 2024-02-16
Description: BILL SUMMARY - As introduced, Bill 25-124 would regulate the practice of health insurers that require patients and their medical providers to seek prior authorization for certain medications, medical procedures, or other medical care. It would set explicit timelines for insurers to respond to prior authorization requests and appeals and establishes what qualifications personnel must have to make these determinations. It would also clarify how insurers are to make information on prior authorization determinations available to patients and their medical providers. It would also prohibit insurers from requiring prior authorization for a treatment based solely on cost and require employers to provide timely notice to employees of medications and treatments covered under their insurer’s standard health benefit plan. FUNDING NOTE - This bill was passed Subject to Appropriations and was fully funded in Bill 25-785. Subject to Appropriations repealer in B25-784.
Location: US-DC
Title: Public finance; Healthcare Safety Net Clinic Loan Guarantees; funding; procedures; effective date; emergency.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2024-02-05
Last Action Date: Referred to Appropriations and Budget Finance - Revenue and Taxation Subcommittee. 2024-02-06
Location: US-OK
Title: Medicaid; Oklahoma Medicaid Maternal Health Reform Act of 2024; effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2024-02-05
Last Action Date: Second Reading referred to Rules. 2024-02-06
Location: US-OK
Title: Concerning provider contract compensation.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2024-01-08
Last Action Date: Referred to Appropriations.. 2024-01-31
Location: US-WA
Title: Phasing in the requirement that only standardized health plans may be offered on the health benefit exchange.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2024-01-17
Last Action Date: Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 8:00 AM.. 2024-01-26
Location: US-WA
Title: Relating to placing a cap on insurance copays
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2024-01-26
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2024-01-26
Location: US-WV
Title: Relating To Healthcare.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2024-01-19
Last Action Date: Referred to HHS, CPN.. 2024-01-24
Description: Establishes the Hui Hoomana task force to identify actionable priorities and financial resources to offer the State's residents universal access to affordable, high-quality healthcare and health insurance. Requires reports to the Legislature. Dissolves the task force on 7/1/2025.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relates to the development and approval of reimbursement rates for managed care providers under medicaid
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2024-01-22
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2024-01-22
Description: Requires notice and additional review for managed care providers of the methodologies and fee schedules and other materials used for determining medicaid reimbursement rates.
Location: US-NY
Title: Requires providers to share electronic health records with plans for purposes of improving patient care and reducing administrative delays
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-27
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2024-01-03
Description: Requires providers to share electronic health records with plans for purposes of improving patient care and reducing administrative delays.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to creating the N.Y. State Health Care Consumer and Provider Protection and Equity Act
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-03
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2024-01-03
Description: Establishes the NYS Health Care Consumer and Provider Protection and Equity Act to allow physicians and dentists to negotiate collectively with employers.
Location: US-NY
Title: Enacts the health care consumer and provider protection act relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-03
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2024-01-03
Description: Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans in certain counties; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident or sickness, including an individual, group, blanket or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement offered by certain enumerated entities.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to the processing of health claims
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-02
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2024-01-03
Description: Requires the use of the current edition of American medical association's current procedural terminology (CPT) with respect to claims for evaluation and management codes.
Location: US-NY
Title: Limits the lookback period for insurance overpayment recovery from health care providers to three months
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-05-17
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2024-01-03
Description: Limits the lookback period for insurance overpayment recovery from health care providers to three months.
Location: US-NY
Title: Limits the lookback period for insurance overpayment recovery from health care providers to three months
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-05-25
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2024-01-03
Description: Limits the lookback period for insurance overpayment recovery from health care providers to three months.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relating To Insurance.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-25
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.. 2023-12-11
Description: Lowers the amount of time in which a health insurer may initiate a recoupment or offset demand effort from a health care provider for services rendered from eighteen months to twelve months. Establishes other requirements that health insurers must follow in making repayment requests from health care providers.
Location: US-HI
Title: An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government -- The Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act Of 2004 -- Health Insurance Oversight (Requires A Workgroup Of Health Care Providers And Health Insurers Convened By The Office Of The Health Commissioner, To Make Recommendations Regarding Prior Authorization Policies.)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-02-16
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2023-06-22
Location: US-RI
Title: Revises provisions relating to insurance. (BDR 57-272)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-11-16
Last Action Date: Approved by the Governor. Chapter 429.. 2023-06-15
Description: AN ACT relating to insurance; revising requirements relating to the submission of certain information to the Commissioner of Insurance by certain persons regulated by the Commissioner; revising provisions concerning the confidentiality of certain records and information; revising requirements for the delivery of certain notices and other documents by electronic means; revising requirements for the conduct of certain hearings before the Commissioner; revising provisions relating to the imposition of certain fees; revising requirements for the issuance and renewal of certain licenses and certificates; revising provisions relating to administrators; prohibiting certain insurers from taking certain actions concerning prescription drugs; revising provisions relating to annuities; imposing certain requirements on persons involved in the sale of prepaid contracts for funeral or burial services; revising certain requirements relating to captive insurers; revising procedures for delinquency proceedings against an insurer; revising provisions relating to bail agents, bail enforcement agents, bail solicitors and general agents; making various other changes relating to insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Location: US-NV
Title: An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government -- The Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act Of 2004 -- Health Insurance Oversight (Requires A Workgroup Of Health Care Providers And Health Insurers Convened By The Office Of The Health Commissioner, To Make Recommendations Regarding Prior Authorization Policies.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-10
Last Action Date: House passed Sub A. 2023-06-14
Location: US-RI
Title: Relating to electronic verification of health benefits by health benefit plan issuers for certain physicians and health care providers.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-03-09
Last Action Date: Effective on 1/1/24. 2023-06-13
Location: US-TX
Title: INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to utilization review standards and approval procedures for healthcare service claims submitted by healthcare providers (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-03-31
Last Action Date: Effective date: 01/01/2024.. 2023-06-13
Location: US-LA
Title: Relating to certain contract provisions and conduct affecting health care provider networks.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-11-15
Last Action Date: Effective immediately. 2023-06-12
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to network adequacy standards and other requirements for preferred provider benefit plans.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-03-03
Last Action Date: Effective on 9/1/23. 2023-06-12
Location: US-TX
Title: INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides for patient's right to prompt coverage. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-03-30
Last Action Date: Effective date 8/1/2023.. 2023-06-12
Location: US-LA
Title: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE AND PRE-AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENTS.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-06-08
Last Action Date: Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate. 2023-06-08
Description: This legislation is the Delaware Pre-Authorization Reform Act of 2023. Section 1 of the Act applies to Health Insurance Contracts regulated under Chapter 33 of Title 18. Section 1 provides that changes in coverage terms for a health-care service or in the clinical criteria used to conduct pre-authorization reviews for a health-care service will not apply until the next plan year, for any covered person who received pre-authorization for the service prior to the change. It also requires the Delaware Department of Insurance to publish on its website information concerning the aggregate number of pre-authorization approvals, denials, and appeals for each insurer, health-benefit plan, or health-care service corporation using pre-authorization review. In addition, Section 1 sets qualifications for who may make determinations with regard to requests for pre-authorization of health-care services and appeals of adverse determinations; a timeline and required contents for the notification of an outcome of appeal of an adverse determination or a notification that additional information is necessary to make the determination of appeal; and requirements for any utilization review entity used to perform pre-authorization review by an insurer, health-benefit plan, or health-service corporation. Section 1 also shortens the timelines for the determination of pre-authorization requests and notification to the health-care provider of the determination. For requests for pre-authorization of non-urgent health-care services not submitted electronically, the utilization review entity must notify the health-care provider within 4 days of receipt of the request; for requests submitted electronically, notification must be given within 72 hours of receipt. For requests for pre-authorization for urgent health-care services, notification must be given within 24 hours of receipt. By January 1, 2024, insurers, health-benefit plans, health-service corporations, and utilization review entities must accept and respond to electronic pre-authorization requests through the same platform as the electronic request was submitted. Further, an insurer, health-benefit plan, or health-service corporation may not deny or limit coverage of a service already provided on the grounds that pre-authorization was not obtained, if such services would have been covered had pre-authorization been obtained. In addition, Section 1 extends the time period that a pre-authorization is valid for from 60 days to 7 months. If a covered person changes insurers, health-benefit plans, or health-service corporations, the new insurer, health-benefit plan, or health-service corporation must comply with any existing pre-authorizations during the first 60 days of the new coverage. Finally, Section 1 provides that no more than 1 pre-authorization may be required for a single episode of care, and that if pre-authorization is granted as to a health-care services that is part of a group of services for which a bundled payment is charged, pre-authorization for the other health-care services included in the group is deemed to be approved as well. Section 2 of the Act applies to Group and Blanket Health Insurance under Chapter 35 of Title 18 and makes the same changes to pre-authorization standards and procedures that Section 1 of the Act makes to Health Insurance Contracts regulated under Chapter 33 of Title 18. Section 3 of the Act provides that the State Employee Benefits Committee established under § 9602 of the Title 29 of the Delaware Code must ensure that carriers administering plans for group health insurance comply with the requirements and provisions for pre-authorization set forth in Chapter 33, Subchapter II and Chapter 35, Subchapter V of Title 18. Section 4 of the Act provides that the Act will take effect on January 1 of the calendar year following enactment and will apply to policies, contracts, or certificates issued or renewed after that effective date. Section 5 of the Act provides that the Department of Health and Social Services must, to the extent feasible, assure that contracts awarded to carriers providing health insurance relating to Medicaid assistance comply with the requirements and provisions for pre-authorization set forth in Chapter 33, Subchapter II and Chapter 35, Subchapter V of Title 18. Section 6 of the Act provides that the Department of Insurance will promulgate a uniform pre-authorization form within 180 days of enactment. Section 7 provides that this Act is known as the "Delaware Pre-Authorization Reform Act of 2023."
Location: US-DE
Title: GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Provides relative to prior authorization for services, procedures, and pharmaceuticals. (gov sig) (RE1 INCREASE SG EX See Note)
Current Status: Passed House
Introduction Date: 2023-03-31
Last Action Date: Notice of Senate conferees appointed.. 2023-06-07
Location: US-LA
Title: An Act to Address Anticompetitive Terms in Health Insurance Carrier and Health Care Provider Contracts
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-04-18
Last Action Date: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD). 2023-06-07
Location: US-ME
Title: Generally revise healthcare insurance laws
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-02-16
Last Action Date: Chapter Number Assigned. 2023-05-22
Location: US-MT
Title: Relating to the use of extrapolation by a health maintenance organization or an insurer to audit claims.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-12-07
Last Action Date: Referred to Health & Human Services. 2023-05-12
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the reimbursement and payment of claims by certain health benefit plan issuers for telemedicine medical services, teledentistry dental services, and telehealth services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-26
Last Action Date: Placed on General State Calendar. 2023-05-11
Location: US-TX
Title: An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government -- The Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act Of 2004--Health Insurance Oversight (Deletes The Power And Duty Of The Health Insurance Commissioner To Guard The Solvency Of Health Insurers.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-16
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2023-05-11
Location: US-RI
Title: Relating to standards required for certain rankings of physicians by health benefit plan issuers.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-02
Last Action Date: Referred to Health & Human Services. 2023-05-11
Location: US-TX
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies (Annually Increases The Rate Of Physicians’ Reimbursement For Each In-Network Health Care Service That Are Reimbursed Below The Average Reimbursement Rates Set By Connecticut And Massachusetts.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-07
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2023-05-11
Location: US-RI
Title: Relating to the definition of and certain determinations regarding emergency care for purposes of certain health benefit plan coverage.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-09
Last Action Date: Left pending in committee. 2023-05-10
Location: US-TX
Title: Modernizing the prior authorization process.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-01-16
Last Action Date: Effective date 7/23/2023*.. 2023-05-09
Location: US-WA
Title: Relating to health benefit plan preauthorization requirements for certain health care services and the direction of utilization review by physicians.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-09
Last Action Date: Committee report sent to Calendars. 2023-05-06
Location: US-TX
Title: Prior Authorization
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-02
Last Action Date: Died in Banking and Insurance. 2023-05-05
Description: Redefining the term “health insurer” as “utilization review entity” and revising the definition; requiring utilization review entities to establish and offer a prior authorization process for accepting electronic prior authorization requests; specifying additional requirements and procedures for, and restrictions and limitations on, utilization review entities relating to prior authorization for covered health care benefits, etc.
Location: US-FL
Title: Prior Authorization for Health Care Services
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-06
Last Action Date: Died in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee. 2023-05-05
Description: Provides process to accept electronic requests for prior authorization for health care services; provides requirements for electronic prior authorization process; prohibits requirements for prior authorizations for certain health care services & medications; prohibits prior authorization revocations, limitations, conditions, & restrictions under specified circumstance; provides requirements for payments to health care providers; provides length of prior authorization validity; prohibits requirements for additional prior authorizations under certain circumstances.
Location: US-FL
Title: COST-SHARING UNDER HEALTH CARE BENEFITS
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-04
Last Action Date: Reported Do Pass (S). 2023-05-04
Description: Creates provisions relating to cost-sharing under health benefit plans
Location: US-MO
Title: Health care matters.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-01-19
Last Action Date: Signed by the Governor. 2023-05-04
Description: Requires the state employee health plan, policies of accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organization contracts to provide coverage for wearable cardioverter defibrillators. Specifies requirements for credentialing a provider for the Medicaid program, an accident and sickness insurance policy, and a health maintenance organization contract. Establishes a provisional credential until a decision is made on a provider's credentialing application and allows for retroactive reimbursement. Provides that a hospital's quality assessment and improvement program must include a process for determining and reporting the occurrence of serious reportable events. Provides that the medical staff of a hospital may make recommendations on the granting of clinical privileges and the appointment or reappointment of an applicant to the governing board for a period not to exceed 36 months. Requires a hospital with an emergency department to have at least one physician on site and on duty who is responsible for the emergency department. Requires the legislative services agency to conduct an analysis of licensing fees and provide a report to the budget committee. Allows the commissioner of the department of insurance (commissioner) to issue an order to discontinue a violation of a law (current law specifies orders or rules). Requires the commissioner to consider specified information before approving or disapproving a premium rate increase. Requires a domestic stock insurer to file specified information with the department of insurance. Prohibits the state employee health plan from requiring prior authorization for certain specified services. Changes prior authorization time requirements for urgent care situations. Adds an employee benefit plan that is subject to the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and a state employee health plan to the definition of "health payer" for the purposes of the all payer claims data base (data base). Allows the department of insurance to adopt rules on certain matters concerning the data base. Requires a health plan to post certain information on the health plan's website. Prohibits an insurer and a health maintenance organization from altering a CPT code for a claim or paying for a CPT code of lesser monetary value unless: (1) the CPT code submitted is not in accordance with certain guidelines and rules, or the terms and conditions of a participating provider's agreement or contract with the insurer or health maintenance organization; or (2) the medical record of the claim has been reviewed by an employee or contractor of the insurer or health maintenance organization. Requires an insurer and a health maintenance organization to provide a contracted provider with a current reimbursement rate schedule at specified times. Urges the study by an interim committee of: (1) prior authorization exemptions for certain health care providers; and (2) whether Indiana should adopt an interstate mobility of occupational licensing. Requires a collaborating physician or physician designee to review certain patient encounters performed by a physician assistant within 14 business days. Requires a health plan to offer a health care provider the option to request a peer to peer review by a clinical peer concerning an adverse determination on a prior authorization request.
Location: US-IN
Title: Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes revisions to the Tennessee Right to Shop Act. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-01-31
Last Action Date: Effective date(s) 07/01/2023. 2023-05-03
Description: As described below, this bill makes changes to the Tennessee Right to Shop Act.OUT-OF-POCKET PAYMENTS This bill provides that an individual who is insured under a healthcare plan ("covered person") may choose to pay out-of-pocket for a nonemergency medical service, including a prescription drug or device ("service"). If a covered person negotiates for a lower cost for the service than the average allowed amount paid by the carrier to network providers for a comparable service, and the covered person pays for the service out-of-pocket, then the healthcare entity must send documentation to the carrier that provides the following: (1) What service the covered person received; (2) The negotiated cost of the service received; and (3) A statement that the covered person paid out-of-pocket for the service received, and the healthcare entity is not making a claim against the carrier for payment for the service provided to the covered person. If a carrier receives such documentation from a healthcare entity, then this bill requires the carrier to count the full amount that the covered person paid out-of-pocket toward the covered person's deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or other cost-sharing amount: (1) If the service is included under the covered person's insurance plan; (2) The covered person negotiated for a lower cost for the service than the average allowed amount paid by the carrier to network providers for that comparable service; and (3) Regardless of whether the healthcare entity belongs to the provider network in the healthcare plan. This bill provides that the amount counted toward a covered person's out-of-pocket deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or other cost-sharing amount must not exceed the total amount that the covered person is required to pay out-of-pocket during a contractually agreed upon period of time for services that are included under the covered person's insurance plan, and does not carry over once a new contract or agreement period for the insurance plan begins.INCENTIVES Present law requires a carrier offering a health plan in this state to implement a shopping and decision support program that provides shopping capabilities and decision support services for enrollees in a health plan. Present law authorizes a carrier to provide incentives for enrollees who elect to receive a comparable healthcare service from a network provider that is covered by the health plan and that is paid less than the average allowed amount paid by that carrier to network providers for that comparable healthcare service before and after an enrollee's out-of-pocket limit has been met. Incentives may be calculated as a percentage of the difference between the amount actually paid by the carrier for a given comparable healthcare service and the average allowed amount for that healthcare service. Incentives may be provided as a cash payment to the enrollee; a credit toward the enrollee's annual in-network deductible and out-of-pocket limit; or a credit or reduction of a premium, a copayment, cost sharing, or a deductible. This bill clarifies that these provisions are in addition to the provisions above concerning a covered person choosing to pay for healthcare services out-of-pocket. CAP ON INCENTIVES Present law prohibits the total value of incentives offered to any one enrollee from exceeding $599 in any year. This bill clarifies that this monetary limit on incentives does not apply to the provisions above concerning a covered person choosing to pay for healthcare services out-of-pocket.APPLICABILITY This bill applies to healthcare plans issued, delivered, entered into, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2023. ON MARCH 6, 2023, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 1213, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to amend the Tennessee Right to Shop Act, as described below. OUT-OF-POCKET PAYMENTS Present law generally requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (“TACIR”) to perform a study of any cost savings realized by enrollees with health plans, including private health plans and state funded health plans, in states that have adopted legislation or programs that require carriers offering health plans in those states to offer incentive programs to enrollees for shopping for healthcare services at lower costs, commonly referred to as “Right to Shop” legislation or programs. The study must include, at a minimum, an examination of savings realized by such programs in Maine, New Hampshire, Florida, Arizona, and Kentucky. All appropriate state departments and agencies must provide assistance to TACIR, which must report its findings to the general assembly no later than December 2020. This amendment deletes these provisions and provides that an individual may choose to pay for a nonemergency service for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease, including a prescription drug or device (“service”) out-of-pocket from an out-of-network provider. If an enrollee negotiates for a lower cost for the service than the average allowed amount paid by the carrier to network providers for a comparable healthcare service, and the enrollee pays for the service out-of-pocket, then the enrollee may send documentation to the carrier that provides the following: (1) The healthcare service the enrollee or patient received and the healthcare provider’s name and contact information; (2) The order from the healthcare provider given to the enrollee or patient and the final bill or statement for the healthcare service; (3) The average payments made by the carrier to network entities or providers for comparable healthcare services if this information is made available to the enrollee; (4) The negotiated cost of the healthcare service that the enrollee received; and (5) A statement that the enrollee paid out-of-pocket for the healthcare services received and the healthcare entity is not making a claim against the carrier for payment for the healthcare service provided to the enrollee or patient. If a carrier receives such documentation from an enrollee, then this amendment requires the carrier to count the full amount that the enrollee paid out-of-pocket toward the enrollee’s deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or other cost-sharing amount: (1) If the service is included under the enrollee's insurance plan; and (2) The enrollee negotiated for a lower cost for the service than the average allowed amount paid by the carrier to network providers for that comparable service. This amendment prohibits the amount counted toward an enrollee's out-of-pocket deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or other cost-sharing amount from exceeding the total amount that the enrollee is required to pay out-of-pocket during a contractually agreed upon period of time for services that are included under the enrollee's insurance plan. Such amount does not carry over once a new contract or agreement period for the insurance plan begins.INCENTIVES Present law requires a carrier offering a health plan in this state to implement a shopping and decision support program that provides shopping capabilities and decision support services for enrollees in a health plan. Present law authorizes a carrier to provide incentives for enrollees who elect to receive a comparable healthcare service from a network provider that is covered by the health plan and that is paid less than the average allowed amount paid by that carrier to network providers for that comparable healthcare service before and after an enrollee's out-of-pocket limit has been met. Incentives may be calculated as a percentage of the difference between the amount actually paid by the carrier for a given comparable healthcare service and the average allowed amount for that healthcare service. Incentives may be provided as a cash payment to the enrollee; a credit toward the enrollee's annual in-network deductible and out-of-pocket limit; or a credit or reduction of a premium, a copayment, cost sharing, or a deductible. This amendment clarifies that these provisions are in addition to the provisions above concerning an enrollee choosing to pay for healthcare services out-of-pocket. CAP ON INCENTIVES Present law prohibits the total value of incentives offered to any one enrollee from exceeding $599 in any year. This amendment clarifies that this monetary limit on incentives does not apply to the provisions above concerning an enrollee choosing to pay for healthcare services out-of-pocket.INTERACTIVE MEMBER PORTAL Present law requires a carrier to make available an interactive member portal or a toll-free phone number that enables an enrollee to request and obtain from the carrier information on out-of-pocket costs to the enrollee for the comparable healthcare services or on the average payments made by the carrier to network entities or providers for comparable healthcare services, as well as quality data for those providers, to the extent available. In addition, the member portal or toll-free phone number must allow an enrollee seeking information about the cost of a particular healthcare service to estimate out-of-pocket costs applicable to that enrollee and compare the average allowed amount paid to a network provider for the procedure or service under the enrollee's health plan within a reasonable timeframe not to exceed one year. This amendment lowers the reasonable timeframe to not exceed 30 days.
Location: US-TN
Title: Revising insurance laws related to prior authorization
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-24
Last Action Date: (S) Died in Standing Committee. 2023-05-02
Location: US-MT
Title: Health benefit plan directories; directing plans to publish certain information in a publicly accessible manner; requiring reporting to Insurance Commissioner. Effective date.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-02-06
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 05/02/2023. 2023-05-02
Location: US-OK
Title: AN ACT CONCERNING ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATIONS FOR PRIOR AUTHORIZATIONS.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-01
Last Action Date: Tabled for the Calendar, House. 2023-05-02
Description: To require the development of electronic prior authorization standards.
Location: US-CT
Title: Updating law regarding prior authorizations
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-01-17
Last Action Date: Chapter 192, Acts, Regular Session, 2023. 2023-05-01
Location: US-WV
Title: SB122 - TO CREATE THE HEALTHCARE COST-SHARING COLLECTIONS ACT.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-25
Last Action Date: Sine Die adjournment. 2023-05-01
Location: US-AR
Title: HB1259 - TO CREATE THE HEALTHCARE COST-SHARING COLLECTIONS ACT.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-25
Last Action Date: Died in House Committee at Sine Die Adjournment. 2023-05-01
Location: US-AR
Title: HB1277 - TO REGULATE A PRUDENT LAY PERSON REVIEW PROCESS BY AN INSURER; AND TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL TO REVIEW A PRUDENT LAY PERSON DECISION.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-26
Last Action Date: Died in House Committee at Sine Die Adjournment. 2023-05-01
Location: US-AR
Title: Relating to the establishment of the Texas Health Insurance Mandate Advisory Collaborative; authorizing a fee.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-03
Last Action Date: Received from the Senate. 2023-05-01
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to data or information collected by the statewide all payor claims database and the composition of the stakeholder advisory group.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-09
Last Action Date: Left pending in committee. 2023-04-19
Location: US-TX
Title: Managed Care Organizations - As introduced, prohibits any managed care organization that contracts with the bureau of TennCare to provide medical assistance from providing reimbursement or coverage for a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a person to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex, or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between a person's sex and asserted identity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-31
Last Action Date: Returned to the Clerk's Desk.. 2023-04-18
Description: This bill prohibits a managed care organization ("MCO") that contracts with the bureau of TennCare ("bureau") to provide medical assistance from providing reimbursement or coverage for a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of either enabling a person to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between a person's sex and asserted identity. This prohibition applies to an MCO's coverage or reimbursement for medical expenses through the following entities and programs: (1) The bureau; (2) A private health insurance program regulated by this state; (3) A state or local insurance program; and (4) Any other program for insurance or medical assistance regulated or administered by another state. Within 30 days of the effective date of this bill, the bureau must appropriately revise or amend the contract between an MCO and the bureau to be in accordance with this bill. An MCO in violation of this bill and contracting with the bureau on the effective date of this bill has 90 days to come into compliance. If the MCO does not come into compliance, then this bill prohibits such MCO from being eligible to provide such medical assistance. Additionally, if an MCO fails to remedy any violation of this bill within 90 days, then such MCO is also prohibited from providing such medical assistance.
Location: US-TN
Title: HB1741 - TO REQUIRE CONSENT TO THE ASSIGNMENT OF BENEFITS TO A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER; AND TO MANDATE NOTICE TO AN ENROLLEE OF THE ASSIGNMENT OF BENEFITS TO A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-03-28
Last Action Date: Notification that HB1741 is now Act 831. 2023-04-13
Location: US-AR
Title: Emergency medical services; insurance; requirements; effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-06
Last Action Date: Failed in Committee - Retirement and Insurance. 2023-04-11
Location: US-OK
Title: HB1271 - TO AMEND THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION TRANSPARENCY ACT; AND TO EXEMPT CERTAIN HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS THAT PROVIDE CERTAIN HEALTHCARE SERVICES FROM PRIOR AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENTS.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-01-26
Last Action Date: Notification that HB1271 is now Act 575. 2023-04-11
Location: US-AR
Title: HB1273 - TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE PAYOR IDENTIFICATION CARD ACT; AND TO DEFINE SHORT-TERM, LIMITED-DURATION INSURANCE.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-01-26
Last Action Date: Notification that HB1273 is now Act 500. 2023-04-10
Location: US-AR
Title: AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study of the prior authorization process for health insurance.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-01-23
Last Action Date: Filed with Secretary Of State 04/05. 2023-04-07
Description: AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study of the prior authorization process for health insurance.
Location: US-ND
Title: HEALTH INSURANCE MENTAL HEALTH COVERAGE
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-01-30
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor - Chapter 114 - Apr. 4. 2023-04-04
Location: US-NM
Title: Relating to prohibited conduct of a health benefit plan issuer in relation to affiliated and nonaffiliated providers.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-01
Last Action Date: Left pending in committee. 2023-04-04
Location: US-TX
Title: Enacts provisions relating to health care provider participation in health insurance plans
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-26
Last Action Date: Second Read and Referred S Insurance and Banking Committee. 2023-04-03
Location: US-MO
Title: Enacts provisions relating to payment for health care services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-07
Last Action Date: Second Read and Referred S Insurance and Banking Committee. 2023-04-03
Location: US-MO
Title: Health insurance; claim payment exceptions changed.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-30
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce Finance and Policy. 2023-03-30
Location: US-MN
Title: Establish an exemption to prior authorization requirements
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-23
Last Action Date: Referred to committee Insurance. 2023-03-28
Description: To amend section 5160.34 and to enact sections 1751.721, 1751.722, 1751.723, 3923.042, 3923.043, 3923.044, 5160.341, and 5160.342 of the Revised Code to establish an exemption to prior authorization requirements.
Location: US-OH
Title: Health insurance; electronic prior authorization and disclosure of certain information.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-12-30
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474). 2023-03-24
Description: Health insurance; electronic prior authorization and disclosure of certain information; out-of-pocket costs; report. Requires each health insurance carrier, beginning July 1, 2025, to establish and maintain an online process that (i) links directly to all e-prescribing systems and electronic health record systems that utilize the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT standard and the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs Real Time Benefit Standard; (ii) can accept electronic prior authorization requests from a provider; (iii) can approve electronic prior authorization requests (a) for which no additional information is needed by the carrier to process the prior authorization request, (b) for which no clinical review is required, and (c) that meet the carrier's criteria for approval; (iv) links directly to real-time patient out-of-pocket costs for the office visit; and (v) otherwise meets the requirements for contracts between carriers and participating health care providers. The bill prohibits a carrier from (a) imposing a fee or charge on any person for accessing the required online process who is required to do so or (b) accessing, absent provider consent, provider data via the online process other than for the enrollee. The bill also requires carriers, no later than July 1, 2024, to provide contact information of any third-party vendor or other entity the carrier will use to meet the requirements of the bill to any provider that requests such information. The carrier may post such information on its website to meet such requirement. The bill requires participating health care providers, beginning July 1, 2025, to ensure that any e-prescribing system or electronic health record system owned by or contracted for the provider to maintain an enrollee's health record has the ability to access, at the point of prescribing, the electronic prior authorization process established by a carrier and real-time patient-specific benefit information, including out-of-pocket costs and more affordable medication alternatives made available by a carrier. The bill provides that a provider may request a waiver of compliance for undue hardship for a period not to exceed 12 months. The bill requires any carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager to provide real-time patient-specific information to enrollees and contracted providers for the office visit, including any out-of-pocket costs and more affordable medication alternatives or prior authorization requirements, and to ensure that the data is accurate. The bill requires that such cost information data be available to the provider at the point of prescribing in an accessible and understandable format, such as through the provider's e-prescribing system or electronic health record system that the carrier or pharmacy benefits manager or its designated subcontractor has adopted that utilizes the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT standard and the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs Real Time Benefit Standard from which the provider makes the request. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, establish a work group to assess implementation and develop recommendations for electronic prior authorization and real-time cost benefit information for prescription drugs, to evaluate and make recommendations to establish a process for electronic prior authorization for surgery and other procedures, and to evaluate and make recommendations to establish an online process for a real-time link at the point of prescribing for any available prescription coupons. The work group shall report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committees on Commerce and Labor and Education and Health and the House Committees on Commerce and Energy and Health, Welfare and Institutions annually by November 1 and shall make its final report by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 1261.
Location: US-VA
Title: Health insurance; online credentialing system, processing of new applications.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-01-10
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377). 2023-03-23
Description: Health insurance; provider credentialing; processing of new applications. Requires a health insurance carrier that credentials the physicians, mental health professionals, or other providers in its network to establish reasonable protocols and procedures for processing of new provider credentialing applications. The bill requires that if the carrier accepts applications through an online credentialing system, the carrier must notify a new provider applicant through the online credentialing system that the application is received. If the carrier does not accept applications through an online credentialing system, the bill requires the carrier to provide, within 10 days of receiving an application, notification to the new provider applicant that the application was received. The bill provides that, beginning January 1, 2024, a new provider applicant's application will be deemed complete within 30 days of the carrier receiving the application, unless the carrier has provided notice that the application is not complete. Under the bill, a carrier must approve or deny new provider applicant credentialing applications within 60 days of receiving a completed application and claims submitted according to carrier claims submittal policies must be adjudicated and paid no later than 40 days after the new provider applicant is credentialed and contracted. The bill directs the Virginia Department of Health to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. This bill is identical to HB 2262.
Location: US-VA
Title: An Act Relating To Business And Professions -- Board Of Medical Licensure And Discipline -- Prompt Processing Of Insurance Claims (Prohibits A Health Insurer From Denying A Claim For Any Medical Bill Based On Sole Reasoning That The Bill May Arise From A Motor Vehicle Accident Or Other Third-Party Claim And Prohibits A Medical Provider From Refusing To Submit Medical For Same Reason.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-01
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2023-03-23
Location: US-RI
Title: Relating to unconditional designation of physicians as participating providers in a managed care plan
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-10
Last Action Date: Referred to Insurance. 2023-03-22
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the direction of utilization review by physicians.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-09
Last Action Date: Referred to Public Health. 2023-03-21
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to network adequacy standards and other requirements for preferred provider benefit plans.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-07
Last Action Date: Referred to Health & Human Services. 2023-03-20
Location: US-TX
Title: Disclosure of certain payments made to health care providers requirement; all-payer claims data provision modification; transparency of health care payments report requirement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-17
Last Action Date: Second reading. 2023-03-16
Location: US-MN
Title: Relating to prohibited conduct of a health benefit plan issuer in relation to affiliated and nonaffiliated providers.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-02
Last Action Date: Referred to Health & Human Services. 2023-03-16
Location: US-TX
Title: Mississippi Prior Authorization Reform Act; enact.
Current Status: Vetoed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-16
Last Action Date: Vetoed. 2023-03-15
Description: An Act To Enact The Mississippi Prior Authorization Reform Act; To Establish The Legislative Findings Of The Act; To Provide The Applicability And Scope Of The Act; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Maintain A Complete List Of Services For Which Prior Authorizations Are Required; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Make Any Current Prior Authorization Requirements And Restrictions Readily Accessible And Posted On Its Website; To Set Requirements For The Clinical Review Criteria Of Health Insurance Issuers; To Prohibit Health Insurance Issuers From Denying A Claim For Failure To Obtain Prior Authorization If The Prior Authorization Requirement Was Not In Effect On The Date Of Service On The Claim; To Require Health Insurers To Make Certain Prior Authorization Statistics Available On Their Website; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Make Available A Standardized Electronic Prior Authorization Request Transaction Process By January 1, 2024; To Require All Health Care Professionals And Health Care Providers To Use That Process Not Later Than January 1, 2026; To Establish Certain Requirements On Health Insurance Issuers For Prior Authorizations In Nonurgent Circumstances And Urgent Circumstances; To Provide Certain Qualifications Of Physicians Qualified To Make Adverse Determinations; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Give Certain Notifications When Making An Adverse Determination; To Establish The Qualifications For Personnel Who Review Appeals Of Prior Authorizations; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Periodically Review Its Prior Authorization Requirements And To Consider Removal Of These Requirements In Certain Cases; To Provide That A Health Insurance Issuer May Not Revoke Or Further Limit, Condition Or Restrict A Previously Issued Prior Authorization While It Remains Valid Under This Act Unless Certain Exclusions Are Applicable; To Provide How Long Prior Authorization Approvals Shall Be Valid; To Provide How Long The Prior Authorizations For Chronic Conditions Shall Be Valid; To Establish The Procedure For The Continuity Of Prior Approvals From Previous Health Insurance Issuers To Current Issuers; To Provide That A Failure By A Health Insurance Issuer To Comply With The Deadlines And Other Requirements Specified In This Act Shall Result In Any Health Care Services Subject To Review To Be Automatically Deemed Authorized By The Health Insurance Issuer Or Its Contracted Private Review Agent; To Authorize The Department Of Health To Issue Cease And Desist Orders To Health Insurance Issuers Or Private Review Agents; To Authorize The State Department Of Health To Impose Upon A Private Review Agent, Health Benefit Plan Or Health Insurance Issuer An Administrative Fine Not To Exceed $10,000 Per Violation Of The Act; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Report To The Department Certain Data; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Notify The Commissioner Of Insurance Of Suspected Submissions Of False Requests For Prior Authorization; To Require The Commissioner To Have An Administrative Hearing On Such Matters To Resolve The Issue; To Amend Section 41-83-31, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform And To Set Certain Qualifications And Time Constraints For Physicians Making Adverse Determinations Through Any Program Of Utilization Review; To Amend Section 83-9-6.3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform With The Provisions Of This Act; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Regards reducing benefits related to certain emergency services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-03-09
Last Action Date: Referred to committee Insurance. 2023-03-14
Description: To amend sections 1753.28 and 3923.65 of the Revised Code to regulate the practice of reducing benefits related to emergency services if a condition is determined, after the fact, to not be an emergency.
Location: US-OH
Title: Relating to the establishment of the Texas Health Insurance Mandate Advisory Review Center; authorizing a fee.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-16
Last Action Date: Referred to State Affairs. 2023-03-13
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the definition of emergency care for purposes of certain health benefit plans.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-23
Last Action Date: Referred to Health & Human Services. 2023-03-09
Location: US-TX
Title: An Act Relating To Business And Professions -- Board Of Medical Licensure And Discipline -- Prompt Processing Of Insurance Claims (Prohibits A Health Insurer From Denying A Claim For Any Medical Bill Based On Sole Reasoning That The Bill May Arise From A Motor Vehicle Accident Or Other Third-Party Claim And Prohibits A Medical Provider From Refusing To Submit Medical For Same Reason.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-19
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2023-03-08
Location: US-RI
Title: Health insurance network adequacy establishment
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-09
Last Action Date: Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Commerce and Consumer Protection. 2023-03-06
Location: US-MN
Title: Relating to a direct payment to a health care provider in lieu of a claim for benefits under a health benefit plan.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-17
Last Action Date: Referred to Health Care Reform, Select. 2023-03-03
Location: US-TX
Title: Relates to certain prohibited insurance contract provisions
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2023-02-01
Last Action Date: Substitute S 1330 action - SIGNED CHAP.95. 2023-03-03
Description: Provides that no insurance contract or agreement between a health insurance plan and a health care provider, other than a residential health care facility, shall include a provision that: contains a most-favored-nation provision; or restricts the ability of a corporation, an entity that contracts with a corporation for a provider network, or a health care provider to disclose certain costs, prices or information; extends the effective date from January 1, 2023 until July 1, 2023.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relating to availability of and benefits provided under health benefit plan coverage.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-12-29
Last Action Date: Referred to Insurance. 2023-03-02
Location: US-TX
Title: Insurance; network adequacy provided, and report required.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-13
Last Action Date: Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Health Finance and Policy. 2023-03-02
Location: US-MN
Title: Relating to electronic verification of health benefits by health benefit plan issuers for certain physicians and health care providers.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-13
Last Action Date: Referred to Health & Human Services. 2023-03-01
Location: US-TX
Title: AN ACT relating to prior authorization.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-06
Last Action Date: recommitted to Banking & Insurance (H). 2023-02-24
Description: Create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements for prior authorization exemptions; establish requirements for rescinding prior authorization exemptions; set forth requirements for external reviews of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions; establish requirements for sending forms and notices to health care providers; prohibit the retrospective denial, reduction in payment, and review of health care services for which a health care provider has a prior authorization exemption and establish exceptions; provide that nothing shall be construed to authorize a health care provider to act outside the provider's scope of practice or require an insurer or private review agent to pay for a health care service performed in violation of law; amend KRS 304.17A-600 to conform; amend KRS 304.17A-605 to establish applicability of provisions relating to prior authorization exemptions to certain insurers and private review agents; amend KRS 304.17A-607 to establish requirements for prior authorizations; provide that a lack of prior authorization shall not alone be a basis for a retrospective review; amend KRS 304.17A-621 to conform; amend KRS 304.17A-627 to prohibit conflicts of interest with independent review entities and reviewers of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions; require independent review entities and reviewers of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions to submit an annual report to the Department of Insurance; amend KRS 304.17A-633 to require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to report on external reviews of prior authorization exemptions denials and rescissions; amend KRS 304.17A-706 to prohibit contesting a clean claim by conducting a retrospective review based on a lack of prior authorization; amend KRS 205.536 to require the Department for Medicaid Services, or managed care organizations contracted to provide Medicaid benefits, to comply with the sections on prior authorization exemptions; apply the provisions to contracts delivered, entered, renewed, extended, or amended on or after the effective date of the Act; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2024.
Location: US-KY
Title: Prompt payment requirements to health care providers modified, discrimination against providers based on geographic location prohibited, managed care organization's claims and payments to health care providers modified.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-21
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce Finance and Policy. 2023-02-21
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act relative to unpaid health insurance deductibles
Current Status: In House
Introduction Date: 2023-02-16
Last Action Date: Senate concurred. 2023-02-16
Description: By Representative Howitt of Seekonk, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1045) of Steven S. Howitt relative to unpaid health insurance deductibles. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to utilization review
Current Status: In House
Introduction Date: 2023-02-16
Last Action Date: Senate concurred. 2023-02-16
Description: By Representative Balser of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 941) of Ruth B. Balser relative to healthcare carrier utilization review. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to uncollected co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles
Current Status: In House
Introduction Date: 2023-02-16
Last Action Date: Senate concurred. 2023-02-16
Description: By Representative Fiola of Fall River, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1009) of Carole A. Fiola, Michael J. Soter and Paul A. Schmid, III for legislation to require certain healthcare carriers to share accountability with providers for uncollectible patient obligations after insurance. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to improve the health insurance prior authorization process
Current Status: In House
Introduction Date: 2023-02-16
Last Action Date: Senate concurred. 2023-02-16
Description: By Representative Santiago of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1143) of Jon Santiago, Vanna Howard and Sal N. DiDomenico relative to the health insurance prior authorization process. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to uncollected co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles
Current Status: In Senate
Introduction Date: 2023-02-16
Last Action Date: House concurred. 2023-02-16
Description: By Mr. Finegold, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 643) of Barry R. Finegold for legislation to require certain healthcare carriers to share accountability with providers for uncollectible patient obligations after insurance. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: Payments made to health care providers disclosure required, self-insurer governing provision added, all-payer claims data provision changed, and transparency of health care payments report required.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-26
Last Action Date: Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law. 2023-02-15
Location: US-MN
Title: Creates provisions relating to inmate co-pays for medical treatment
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-04
Last Action Date: Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. 2023-02-09
Location: US-MO
Title: AN ACT relating to health care to provide for an all-payer claims database and making an appropriation therefor.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-04
Last Action Date: to Appropriations & Revenue (S). 2023-02-07
Description: Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Kentucky all-payer claims database; establish purposes, definitions, and a restricted fund for the database; require the executive director of the Office of Data Analytics to develop, implement, operate, and maintain the database and promulgate administrative regulations to carry out those duties; establish an advisory council to make recommendations to the executive director; establish requirements for database administration and operations; require state-regulated health payers to report to the database; amend KRS 194A.030, 194A.101, and 304.2-100 to conform; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to enforce reporting requirements; establish time for making initial appointments and provide for staggered appointments to the advisory council; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to obtain a federal waiver within 90 days after the effective date of Act if necessary for implementation; APPROPRIATION.
Location: US-KY
Title: Health insurance; provider contracts, timeframe for provider to request appeal.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-03
Last Action Date: House: Left in Commerce and Energy. 2023-02-07
Description: Health insurance; provider contracts; timeframe for provider to request appeal. Requires every carrier to provide at least 60 days following notice to a health care provider of any findings of an audit conducted by the carrier during which such health care provider may request a first-level or any subsequent-level appeal of any such findings.
Location: US-VA
Title: Health insurance; provider contracts, audits.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-03
Last Action Date: House: Left in Commerce and Energy. 2023-02-07
Description: Health insurance; provider contracts; audits. Prohibits a health insurance carrier, in conducting an audit of a provider, from reviewing any claim that was paid more than six months prior to the date of the audit. The bill prohibits a carrier from seeking recoupment from a provider until the time period for filing an appeal to an initial audit report has passed or until the appeals process has been exhausted, whichever is later.
Location: US-VA
Title: Managed care health insurance plan licensees; network adequacy for mental health care services.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-10
Last Action Date: House: Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions. 2023-02-07
Description: Managed care health insurance plan licensees; network adequacy for mental health care services. Requires each managed care health insurance plan licensee (licensee) to (i) provide a sufficient number and mix of services, specialists, and practice sites to meet covered persons' mental health care needs; (ii) ensure that covered persons have telephone access 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to responsible and knowledgeable mental health care practitioners capable of assessing the covered persons' conditions and, as necessary, providing for appropriate services; and (iii) incorporate strategies into its access procedures to facilitate utilization of the licensee's mental health care services by covered persons with physical, mental, language, or cultural barriers. The bill requires a licensee to cover out-of-network mental health care services to a covered person if (a) the licensee does not have a mental health care provider within its network capable of providing mental health care services to the covered person; (b) the majority of the licensee's mental health care providers within 25 miles of a covered person or, if appropriate for the covered person, available via telemedicine who have experience treating the general age group of a covered person are no longer accepting new patients or have wait-lists to receive care; or (c) the licensee does not have a mental health care provider within 25 miles of a covered person or, if appropriate for the covered person, available via telemedicine who (1) has experience or expertise in treating patients who share the emotionally distressing experiences, defined in the bill, or demographics of the covered person seeking care and (2) is capable of providing care within the next 31 days. The bill provides that a licensee may require certain verification that the mental health care services are related to an emotionally distressing experience but is prohibited from requiring proof of a criminal proceeding The bill requires a licensee, for any covered person seeking mental health care services that has self-harm or suicidal ideation, to cover any associated out-of-network care such that the covered person shall not be responsible for any additional costs incurred by the licensee for such services, other than any applicable copayment, coinsurance, or deductible. The bill requires a licensee to accept verification from the associated out-of-network provider that the mental health care services provided were related to the covered person's self-harm or suicidal ideation and prohibits a licensee from imposing any additional requirements to verify that the covered person was seeking care related to self-harm or suicidal ideation.
Location: US-VA
Title: Health Care Freedom of Choice Act; expanding health care providers to be paid by an assigned benefits claim; establishing penalties. Effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-02-06
Last Action Date: Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance. 2023-02-07
Location: US-OK
Title: Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Affordability is Access Act," which requires individual and group health plans to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives that have been approved for use by the federal food and drug administration. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53 and Title 56.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-31
Last Action Date: Assigned to s/c Insurance Subcommittee. 2023-02-07
Description: Abstract summarizes the bill.
Location: US-TN
Title: An act relating to patient access to and payment for health care services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-31
Last Action Date: Committee on [Finance] relieved; bill committed to Committee on [Health and Welfare] on motion of Senator [Cummings]. 2023-02-02
Location: US-VT
Title: Health Insurance – Utilization Review – Revisions
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-27
Last Action Date: Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.. 2023-01-30
Description: Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review, including provisions regarding benchmarks for standardizing and automating the preauthorization process, the online preauthorization system for payors, preauthorizations for prescription drugs, and private review agents; altering timelines related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; increasing the penalties for violating certain provisions of law regarding private review agents; etc.
Location: US-MD
Title: Health Insurance - Utilization Review - Revisions
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-25
Last Action Date: Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.. 2023-01-26
Description: Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review, including provisions regarding benchmarks for standardizing and automating the preauthorization process, the online preauthorization system for payors, preauthorizations for prescription drugs, and private review agents; altering timelines related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; increasing the penalties for violating certain provisions of law regarding private review agents; etc.
Location: US-MD
Title: Exemption from prior authorization requirements.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-19
Last Action Date: First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance. 2023-01-19
Description: Amends the law concerning the prior authorization of health care services by a health plan (which includes a policy of accident and sickness insurance, a health maintenance organization contract, and the Medicaid risk based managed care program). Provides that: (1) if a health plan, during a six month evaluation period, approves at least 90% of a health care provider's requests for prior authorization for a particular type of health care service, the health plan may not require the health care provider to obtain prior authorization for that type of health care service for the entire duration of an exemption period of six calendar months immediately following the evaluation period; and (2) at the conclusion of the initial exemption period, the health plan shall continue granting consecutive exemption periods of six months to the health care provider unless the health plan rescinds the exemption. Provides that a health plan may rescind a health care provider's exemption only on the basis of a determination by a physician that, in at least five and not more than 20 cases randomly selected for review, less than 90% of the health care services provided by the health care provider met the health plan's medical necessity criteria. Authorizes a health care provider that is notified of the rescission of its exemption to initiate a review of the rescission by an independent review panel. Requires the independent review panel to determine whether at least 90% of the health care services provided by the health care provider met the health plan's medical necessity criteria. Requires a health plan to restore the health care provider's exemption if the independent review panel's determination is in favor of the health care provider. Requires the insurance commissioner to adopt rules.
Location: US-IN
Title: Relating to prior authorizations
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-13
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2023-01-13
Location: US-WV
Title: Repeal All Payer Claims Database
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-12
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2023-01-12
Location: US-WV
Title: Information about health care and health coverage.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-11
Last Action Date: First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance. 2023-01-11
Description: Amends the law requiring a hospital to file an annual report with the Indiana department of health: (1) to require that a hospital's report also be filed with the all payer claims data base; and (2) to require a hospital to include in the report additional information concerning the hospital's medical loss ratio, the total funding received by the hospital under the CARES Act, and other matters. Requires the insurance commissioner, when deciding whether to approve a premium rate increase or decrease for an accident and sickness insurance policy or an increase or decrease in the rates to be used by a health maintenance organization (HMO), to consider the median cost sharing for the affected insurance policy or HMO contract, the benefits provided under the policy or contract, the underlying costs of the health services covered by the policy or contract, and other matters.
Location: US-IN
Title: Health Care For All
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-13
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Creates the Health Care for All Illinois Act. Provides that all individuals residing in this State are covered under the Illinois Health Services Program for health insurance. Sets forth requirements and qualifications of participating health care providers. Sets forth the specific standards for provider reimbursement. Provides that it is unlawful for private health insurers to sell health insurance coverage that duplicates the coverage of the program. Requires the State to establish the Illinois Health Services Trust to provide financing for the program. Sets forth the specific requirements for claims billed under the program. Provides that the program shall include funding for long-term care services and mental health services. Creates the Pharmaceutical and Durable Medical Goods Committee to negotiate the prices of pharmaceuticals and durable medical goods with suppliers or manufacturers on an open bid competitive basis. Provides that patients in the program shall have the same rights and privacy as they are entitled to under current State and federal law. Provides that the Commissioner, the Chief Medical Officer, the public State board members, and employees of the program shall be compensated in accordance with the current pay scale for State employees and as deemed professionally appropriate by the General Assembly. Effective July 1, 2021.
Location: US-IL
Title: Medicaid-End Managed Care
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-13
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that, on and after January 1, 2022, no recipient of medical assistance shall be required to enroll or transition to the State's managed care medical assistance program. Provides that any recipient enrolled in a managed care health plan on January 1, 2022 shall be given the option to disenroll from the State's managed care medical assistance program and receive coverage under the State's fee-for-service program. Provides that on and after January 1, 2022, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall not enter into any new contract or agreement with a managed care organization (MCO) to provide services where payment for medical services is made on a capitated basis. Provides that the Department shall not renew, renter, renegotiate, change orders, or amend any contract or agreement it entered into with an MCO that was solicited under a specified request for proposals. Provides that any recipient who is enrolled in a managed care health plan administered by an MCO that entered a contract with the Department under a specified request for proposals shall be transitioned to the State's fee-for-service program upon the expiration of the MCO's contract with the Department. Requires the Department to establish, by rule, an appeals and grievance process that includes: an expedited internal review of an appeal involving an adverse determination; a final adverse determination; and a standard external review. Requires the Department to notify a recipient in writing of the recipient's right to request an external review. Repeals a provision concerning procurement requirements for MCO contracts.
Location: US-IL
Title: Health Care & Human Services
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Creates the Community Health Worker Certification and Reimbursement Act. Amends various Acts regarding medical staff credentials; electronic posters and signs; N95 masks; Legionella bacteria testing; continuing education on implicit bias awareness; overdoses; the Prescription Monitoring Program; a dementia training program; taxation of blood sugar testing materials; funding of safety-net hospitals; a Child Care Assistance Program Eligibility Calculator; managed care organizations; Federally Qualified Health Centers; care coordination; billing; the Medicaid Business Opportunity Commission; reimbursement rates; doula services; personal care of family members; the State Health Assessment; the State Health Improvement Plan; child care training; and a Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Commission. Creates the Behavioral Health Workforce Education Center of Illinois Act. Creates the Underlying Causes of Crime and Violence Study Act. Creates the Special Commission on Gynecologic Cancers Act. Creates the Racial Impact Note Act to require the estimate of the impact on racial and ethnic minorities of certain bills. Creates the Health and Human Services Task Force and Study Act to review health and human service departments and programs. Creates the Anti-Racism Commission Act concerning elimination of systemic racism. Creates the Sickle Cell Prevention, Care, and Treatment Program Act regarding programs and other matters. Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act in relation to the Health Facilities and Services Review Board, facility closure, and other matters. Repeals, adds, and changes other provisions. Effective immediately.
Location: US-IL
Title: Regulation-Tech
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-11
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Location: US-IL
Title: Medicaid Eligibility-Covid-19
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that, subject to federal approval, children younger than age 19 shall be eligible for medical assistance when countable income is at or below 313% (rather than 133%) of the federal poverty level as determined by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and in accordance with applicable federal requirements. Provides that any individual determined eligible for medical assistance as of or during the COVID-19 public health emergency may be treated as eligible for such medical assistance benefits during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and up to 12 months after the period expires, regardless of whether federally required or whether the individual's eligibility may be State or federally funded, unless the individual requests a voluntary termination of eligibility or ceases to be a resident. Provides that the amendatory Act shall not restrict any determination of medical need or appropriateness for any particular service and shall not require continued coverage of any particular service that may be no longer necessary, appropriate, or otherwise authorized for an individual. Provides that nothing shall prevent the Department from determining and properly establishing an individual's eligibility under a different category of eligibility. Repeals the Children's Health Insurance Program Act and the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act. Makes conforming changes to various Acts.
Location: US-IL
Title: Veh Cd-Wireless Telephone
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person under the age of 19 years who holds an instruction permit or a graduated license may use a wireless telephone while driving a vehicle on a roadway if the use of the wireless telephone is for GPS purposes only.
Location: US-IL
Title: Covid-19 Contact Tracing
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Provides that all contact tracing information shall be kept confidential by any contact tracer and may not be disclosed except as necessary to carry out contact tracing or a permitted purpose. Provides that an individual may waive the confidentiality provided for by this Section only by a written, informed, and voluntary waiver, in plain language and in a language understandable to the individual making the waiver, and not part of any other document. Provides that a disclosure of contact tracing information shall be limited in scope as to the identity of any individual, the information to be disclosed, and the party to which disclosure may be made, and shall not authorize re-disclosure except as explicitly authorized by the terms of the waiver. Provides that the provisions do not bar otherwise lawful disclosure, possession, or use of contact tracing information, including aggregate contact tracing information, that is de-identified. Requires disclosure, possession, or use under the provisions to only be for a public health or public health research purpose. Provides that no contact tracer may provide contact tracing information to a law enforcement agent or entity or immigration authority. Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt specified rules. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.
Location: US-IL
Title: Suicide Treatment Improvements
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-19
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Creates the Suicide Treatment Improvements Act. Provides that specified persons and entities shall require suicide prevention counselors on the person or entity's staff to perform specified suicide prevention services. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall require each suicide hotline and crisis hotline in the State to identify callers who are or may be suicidal. Provides for penalties for noncompliance with an order of the Department. Provides that services provided under the Act shall be covered by each group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the Act's effective date. Provides that each county and municipal law enforcement officer shall annually complete at least 2 hours of in-service training on the appropriate response to emergencies that involve a person who is or may be suicidal. Requires the governing body of each county to appoint a suicide prevention response coordinator to perform specified actions. Provides that suicide prevention counselors dispatched to an emergency scene shall have specified duties. Provides that PSAP call-takers shall evaluate and determine whether a request for emergency services involves a person who is or may be suicidal. Requires specified agencies to adopt rules to implement specified provisions of the Act. Contains other provisions. Amends the Department of State Police Law. Requires the Office of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator to develop comprehensive guidelines and adopt rules and standards for the handling of suicide or suicide calls by Public Safety Answering Point telecommunicators. Contains suicide training requirements for PSAP telecommunicators. Effective July 1, 2021.
Location: US-IL
Title: Ins-Prior Authorization-Covid
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-19
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed in the State on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall not require prior authorization for prescription drugs used in the treatment of COVID-19 that have received an emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Effective immediately.
Location: US-IL
Title: Medical Practice Act-Sunset
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-19
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal date of the Medical Practice Act of 1987 from January 1, 2022 to January 1, 2032. Effective immediately.
Location: US-IL
Title: Telehealth Services
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-19
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Telehealth Act. Provides that the Act applies to all health insurance coverage offered by health insurance issuers regulated by the Department of Insurance or the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and the medical assistance program authorized under the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that any policy, contract, or certificate of health insurance coverage that does not distinguish between in-network and out-of-network providers shall be subject to the Act as though all providers were in-network. Provides that health insurance issuers shall cover all telehealth services rendered by a health care professional to deliver any clinically appropriate, medically necessary covered services. Restricts health insurance issuers from engaging in specified activities. Provides that health care professionals and facilities shall determine the appropriateness of specific sites, technology platforms, and technology vendors for a telehealth service, as long as delivered services adhere to privacy laws. Changes the term "telehealth" to "telehealth services". Makes corresponding changes. Defines terms. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning coverage for telehealth services, makes changes to definitions. Provides that coverage and reimbursement for telehealth services delivered by health care professionals and facilities shall comply with the Telehealth Act. Makes other changes. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department and managed care organizations shall comply with the Telehealth Act and removes provisions concerning behavioral health and medical services via telehealth. Makes other changes. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to provide for emergency rulemaking. Effective immediately. Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident or health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall cover all telehealth services rendered by a health care professional to deliver any clinically appropriate, medically necessary covered services, and shall not engage in specified activities. Provides that any policy, contract, or certificate of health insurance coverage that does not distinguish between in-network and out-of-network providers shall be subject to the Act as though all providers were in-network. Provides that health care professionals and facilities shall determine the appropriateness of specific sites, technology platforms, and technology vendors for a telehealth service, as long as delivered services adhere to privacy laws. Provides that there shall be no restrictions on originating site requirements for telehealth coverage or reimbursement to the distant site. Defines terms. Amends the Telehealth Act. Changes the term "telehealth" to "telehealth services". Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and managed care organizations shall comply with specified provisions of the Illinois Insurance Code and removes provisions concerning behavioral health and medical services via telehealth. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to provide for emergency rulemaking. In provisions concerning coverage for telehealth services, removes language that provides that coverage and reimbursement for telehealth services delivered by health care professionals and facilities shall comply with the Telehealth Act. Removes changes to the Telehealth Act. Makes other changes. Effective immediately. In provisions in the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act concerning emergency rulemaking, provides that provisions allowing the Department of Insurance and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to adopt emergency rules are repealed on January 1, 2022 (rather than January 1, 2026). In provisions concerning coverage for telehealth services, provides that an individual or group policy of accident or health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall not require that in-person contact occur between a health care professional and a patient (rather than in-person contact shall not occur between a health care professional and a patient, except before an initial e-visit or virtual check-in in order to establish a patient relationship).
Location: US-IL
Title: Workers Comp-Fee Schedule
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-19
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes existing medical fee schedules inoperative after August 31, 2022. Provides that the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission shall establish new medical fee schedules applicable on and after September 1, 2022 in accordance with specified criteria. Provides for 4 non-hospital fee schedules and 14 hospital fee schedules applicable to different geographic areas of the State. Sets forth a procedure for petitioning the Commission if a maximum fee causes a significant limitation on access to quality health care in either a specific field of health care services or a specific geographic limitation on access to health care. Effective immediately.
Location: US-IL
Title: Worker Comp-Drug Formulary
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-19
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, upon consultation with the Workers' Compensation Medical Fee Advisory Board, shall promulgate an evidence-based drug formulary. Requires prescriptions in workers' compensation cases to be limited to the drugs on the formulary. Effective immediately.
Location: US-IL
Title: Medicaid-Mco-Reduced Payments
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-19
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that capitation rates established by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for managed care organizations shall be reduced by 20% for the duration of a disaster proclamation, and any subsequent disaster proclamation, issued by the Governor in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Requires the Department to reduce future capitation payments to managed care organizations on a prorated basis to reflect any amounts paid by the Department before the effective date of the amendatory Act that were in excess of the lower capitation rates authorized by the amendatory Act. Provides that the amendatory Act applies to capitation rates in effect during a disaster period established by the Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation issued by the Governor on March 9, 2020 concerning the COVID-19 public health emergency and any subsequent Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation issued by the Governor in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Effective immediately.
Location: US-IL
Title: Dfpr-Culture Competency Health
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-20
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides for continuing education cultural competency trainings for health care professionals. Defines "cultural competency" and "health care professional". Provides that the cultural competency training includes information on sensitivity relating to providing affirming care to people in the person's preferred language, people with disabilities, people who are intersex, people living with HIV, and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Provides that for the first license or registration renewal occurring after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a health care professional who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 5 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that for the first license or registration renewal occurring after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a person licensed or registered by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 and who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 10 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that the hours required for cultural competency count toward meeting minimum hours required for continuing education. Effective January 1, 2023.
Location: US-IL
Title: Medciaid-Managed Care
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-20
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to be responsible for and actively oversee managed care organization compliance and shall immediately modify all contractual arrangements with each of the managed care organizations in conflict with the provisions of the amendatory Act. Provides that a managed care organization's failure to agree to all necessary amendments to its contract with the State shall constitute the company's notice of withdrawal from the medical assistance program. Requires the Department to attest to each managed care organization's compliance with all provisions of the amendatory Act within 60 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that if the Department cannot attest to each managed care organization's compliance by the end of the 60 days or after any of the audits required under the amendatory Act, then the Department shall prohibit the managed care organization from managing skilled nursing facilities patients under the medical assistance managed care program. Contains provisions concerning the transition of network residents to managed care organizations in good standing; quarterly audits of each managed care organization's business practices; monthly audits of each managed care organization's information technology and systems; Medicaid fee-for-service reimbursement rates for nursing facilities under contract with managed care organizations; fines for non-compliance; and other matters.
Location: US-IL
Title: Network--Adeq And Transparency
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-23
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Adds provisions concerning market analysis and market conduct actions. Makes changes to provisions concerning market conduct and non-financial examinations, examination reports, insurance compliance self-evaluative privilege, confidentiality, fees and charges, examination, and fiduciary and bonding requirements. Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Adds definitions. Establishes minimum ratios of providers to beneficiaries for network plans issued, delivered, amended, or renewed during 2023. Makes changes to provisions concerning network adequacy, notice of nonrenewal or termination, transition of services, network transparency, administration and enforcement, and provider requirements. Creates the Network Adequacy Advisory Council. Provides that the Council shall consider the standards required pursuant to the Act and any related rules and may recommend additional or alternative standards for determining whether a network plan is adequate. Contains provisions concerning the membership and responsibilities of the Council. Amends the Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act. Makes changes to provisions concerning notice of nonrenewal or termination and transition of services. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to authorize the Department of Insurance to adopt emergency rules implementing federal standards for provider ratios, time and distance, or appointment wait times when such standards apply to health insurance coverage regulated by the Department of Insurance and are more stringent than the State standards extant at the time the final federal standards are published. Effective immediately.
Location: US-IL
Title: Ins-Billing/Network Adequacy
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-11-14
Last Action Date: Session Sine Die. 2023-01-10
Description: Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes a change in provisions concerning disclosure of nonparticipating provider limited benefits. Adds reproductive health care to the definition of "ancillary services". Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Provides that an insurer providing a network plan shall file a description with the Director of Insurance of written policies and procedures on how the network plan will provide 24-hour, 7-day per week access to reproductive health care. Provides that the Department of Insurance shall consider establishing ratios for reproductive health care physicians or other providers. Effective July 1, 2023, except that certain changes take effect January 1, 2024.
Location: US-IL
Title: An Act to ensure full system accountability for mental health parity
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: No further action taken. 2023-01-03
Description: By Mr. Golden of Lowell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2094) of Thomas A. Golden, Jr. for legislation to ensure that health care policies and protocols not discriminate between patients with mental health or substance use conditions and patients with a medical or surgical conditions. Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to creating a universal consent process to share sensitive health information between healthcare providers
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: No further action taken. 2023-01-03
Description: By Ms. Decker of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2079) of Marjorie C. Decker, David Allen Robertson and Lindsay N. Sabadosa that public and private agencies, departments, corporations, provider organizations and licensed professionals receive mental health and substance use disorder information to utilize for treatment. Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery.
Location: US-MA
Title: AN ACT relating to health care to provide for an all-payer claims database and making an appropriation therefor.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2023-01-03
Last Action Date: to Committee on Committees (H). 2023-01-03
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to require the executive director of the Office of Data Analytics to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations regarding the creation and implementation of a Kentucky all-payer claims database; establish the Kentucky all-payer claims database fund; require the executive director to establish the database if certain conditions are met; set forth requirements for the database; amend KRS 194A.101 to conform; amend KRS 304.2-100 to require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to assist in carrying out database; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations designating the assessment of a fine for persons that do not comply with reporting requirements; establish short title; permit the executive director to make an application for a grant under 42 U.S.C. sec. 247d-11; APPROPRIATION.
Location: US-KY
Title: Relates to enhancing coverage and care for medically fragile children
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-03-22
Last Action Date: Substitute A 289 action - APPROVAL MEMO.97. 2022-12-30
Description: Relates to enhancing coverage and care for medically fragile children; requires that health plans adopt policies and procedures tailored to the unique healthcare needs of this population.
Location: US-NY
Title: An Act to create a timely stroke system of care to save lives
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H5441. 2022-12-27
Description: By Mr. Cusack of Braintree, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2253) of Mark J. Cusack and others relative to establishing pre-hospital care protocols and point-of-entry plans to ensure stroke patients are transported to the most appropriate facility. Public Health.
Location: US-MA
Title: Relates to regulation of billing of facility fees
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-05-18
Last Action Date: SIGNED CHAP.764. 2022-12-23
Description: Relates to regulation of the billing of facility fees; requires notice prior to billing facility fees not covered by a patient's insurance; defines facility fees as those charged by a hospital, facility or provider designed to compensate for operational costs separate from professional fees.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to regulation of billing of facility fees
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-05-18
Last Action Date: Substitute S 2521 action - SIGNED CHAP.764. 2022-12-23
Description: Relates to regulation of the billing of facility fees; requires notice prior to billing facility fees not covered by a patient's insurance; defines facility fees as those charged by a hospital, facility or provider designed to compensate for operational costs separate from professional fees.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to prohibiting the application of fail-first or step therapy protocols to coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions
Current Status: Vetoed
Introduction Date: 2022-05-24
Last Action Date: Substitute A 3276 action - TABLED. 2022-12-23
Description: Prohibits the application of fail-first or step therapy protocols to coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions.
Location: US-NY
Title: "New Jersey Respect for Physicians Act;" requires prompt response by insurers to requests for prior authorization of health care services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-12-12
Last Action Date: Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee. 2022-12-12
Location: US-NJ
Title: The Medical Provider Network Transparency Act of 2022.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-03
Last Action Date: From Senate committee without further action.. 2022-11-30
Description: AB 399, as amended, Salas. The Medical Provider Network Transparency Act of 2022. Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law requires the employer to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment that is reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the injury. Existing law requires the administrative director to adopt and revise periodically an official medical fee schedule establishing reasonable maximum fees paid for medical services other than physician services, drugs and pharmacy services, health care facility fees, home health care, and all other treatment, care, services, and goods. Existing law also establishes the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (appeals board) to exercise all judicial powers vested in it, including workers’ compensation proceedings for the recovery of compensation.Existing law authorizes an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services to establish or modify a medical provider network for providing medical treatment to injured employees and imposes various duties upon the insurer, employer, or entity in connection with the network. Existing law requires every medical provider network to post on its internet website a roster of all treating physicians in the medical provider network and requires every network to provide to the administrative director the internet website address of the network and of its roster of treating physicians. Existing law requires an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services to submit a plan for the medical provider network to the administrative director for approval. Existing law requires the administrative director to adopt a medical treatment utilization schedule. Existing law authorizes the administrative director to investigate complaints and to conduct random reviews of approved medical provider networks. Existing law permits a medical provider to request an independent bill review for disputes relating to the amount of payment and authorizes the imposition of fees for this purpose, as specified.This bill, the Medical Provider Network Transparency Act of 2022, would limit the independent bill review fee for the independent bill review organization to determine the eligibility of a request to $50 and would authorize additional fees, as specified, for a request that is reviewable. If the independent bill review organization finds that an employer owes the medical provider, the bill would require the independent bill review organization to bill the employer for the additional review fees, as specified. If the employer is found to not owe the medical provider, the bill would require the independent bill review organization to bill the provider for the additional review fees, as specified. The bill would require employers to pay any additional amounts found owed within 30 days of the final determination.
Location: US-CA
Title: Relates to financial responsibility for human postexposure treatment for rabies
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-05-17
Last Action Date: SIGNED CHAP.655. 2022-11-23
Description: Relates to financial responsibility for human postexposure treatment for rabies; provides health care providers shall accept payments by the county health authority for human post exposure treatment at a rate set by the commissioner of health; provides that such reimbursement shall be no less than the Medicaid rate.
Location: US-NY
Title: Requires a study of the issues impacting the continuum of caregiving in the state
Current Status: Vetoed
Introduction Date: 2022-05-11
Last Action Date: VETOED MEMO.75. 2022-11-23
Description: Requires a multi-agency study of the issues impacting the continuum of caregiving in the state; requires the submission of a report of the findings, conclusions and recommendations from such study to the governor and the legislature.
Location: US-NY
Title: Freestanding emergency departments; Bd. of Health to promulgate regulations related to departments.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Senate: Left in Education and Health. 2022-11-21
Description: Freestanding emergency departments. Requires the Board of Health to promulgate regulations related to freestanding emergency departments, defined in the bill as facilities located in the Commonwealth that (i) provide emergency services, (ii) are owned and operated by a licensed hospital and operate under the hospital's license, and (iii) are located on separate premises from the primary campus of the hospital. The bill also requires freestanding emergency departments to make certain disclosures to patients, in advertisements, and on any online platforms associated with such emergency department.
Location: US-VA
Title: Children; comprehensive health care coverage program.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Senate: Left in Finance and Appropriations. 2022-11-21
Description: Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are under 19 years of age, (ii) are not covered under a group health plan or health insurance coverage, and (iii) but for their immigration status would be eligible for medical assistance services through the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance services established pursuant to Title XIX or XXI of the Social Security Act. The bill also requires the Department to ensure that all program information is made available in a manner that is accessible to individuals with limited English proficiency through the provision of language access services, including oral interpretation and written translations, free of charge, and to ensure that information obtained by the program remains confidential and is not disclosed for any purpose not related to the administration of the program or any purpose related to civil immigration enforcement unless the subject of the information consents to such disclosure or the requesting agency presents a valid judicial order, subpoena, or warrant.
Location: US-VA
Title: relative to balance billing for certain health care services.
Current Status: In House
Introduction Date: 2021-12-14
Last Action Date: Interim Study Report: Not Recommended for Future Legislation (Vote 17-0). 2022-10-27
Location: US-NH
Title: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE TO ENSURE FAIRNESS IN COST-SHARING FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-04-14
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2022-10-26
Description: The bill requires that third-party cost-sharing assistance utilized by patients is applied toward the enrollee's health insurance deductibles and any out-of-pocket limits. Additionally, the bill defines what constitutes a “cost-sharing requirement” as well as how to calculate the assistance when applying to patient’s deductibles and out-of-pocket limits. This bill applies to both carriers and pharmacy benefits managers with an effective date of January 1, 2024.
Location: US-DE
Title: relative to reimbursements for telemedicine.
Current Status: In House
Introduction Date: 2021-01-13
Last Action Date: Interim Study Report: Not Recommended for Future Legislation (Vote 17-0). 2022-10-19
Location: US-NH
Title: Requires health insurance carriers to provide network adequacy within health benefits plans.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-10-17
Last Action Date: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee. 2022-10-17
Location: US-NJ
Title: An Act ensuring protections for physicians and hospitals that contract with Medicaid managed care organizations
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H5201. 2022-10-13
Description: By Messrs. Linsky of Natick and O'Day of West Boylston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1289) of David Paul Linsky and James J. O'Day relative to physicians and hospitals that contract with Medicaid managed care organizations. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to ensure MassHealth rate parity for behavioral health inpatient providers
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H5222. 2022-09-15
Description: By Ms. Balser of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1240) of Ruth B. Balser, Mindy Domb and Lindsay N. Sabadosa relative to MassHealth rate parity for behavioral health inpatient providers. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to non-medical switching
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H5222. 2022-09-15
Description: By Mr. Day of Stoneham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1237) of Michael S. Day, Lindsay N. Sabadosa and Christopher Hendricks relative to changes to health benefit plans that cause certain covered persons to switch to less costly alternate prescription drugs. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to insurance coverage of mobile integrated health
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H5222. 2022-09-15
Description: By Mr. Finn of West Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1083) of Michael J. Finn and Brian W. Murray relative to insurance coverage of mobile integrated health. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: Requires health insurance carriers to provide adequate network of physicians.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-09-15
Last Action Date: Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee. 2022-09-15
Location: US-NJ
Title: An Act relative to unpaid health insurance deductibles
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H5211. 2022-09-12
Description: By Mr. Howitt of Seekonk, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1118) of Steven S. Howitt relative to unpaid health insurance deductibles. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to payments for use of ambulance services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H5208. 2022-09-12
Description: By Messrs. D'Emilia of Bridgewater and McMurtry of Dedham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1063) of Angelo L. D'Emilia, Paul McMurtry and others relative to insurance payments for use of ambulance services. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to facilitate access to treatment
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Ought NOT to pass (under Joint Rule 10) and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session. 2022-09-08
Description: By Mr. Crighton, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1268) of Brendan P. Crighton for legislation to facilitate access to treatment. Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to uncollected co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H4975. 2022-09-01
Description: By Ms. Fiola of Fall River, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1086) of Carole A. Fiola and others for legislation to require certain healthcare carriers to share accountability with providers for uncollectible patient obligations after insurance. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to increasing patient choice through assignment of benefits
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H4975. 2022-09-01
Description: By Mr. Puppolo of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1181) of Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr., and others relative to insurance coverage for certain dental benefits. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to patient financial protection
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H4975. 2022-09-01
Description: By Ms. Decker of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1059) of Marjorie C. Decker relative to regulating separate out-of-pocket insurance limits for prescription drugs, including specialty drugs. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to health insurance coverage
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H4975. 2022-09-01
Description: By Ms. Cronin of Easton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1231) of Claire D. Cronin relative to health insurance coverage for emergency and inpatient services. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relating to patient cost, benefit, and coverage information, choice, and price transparency
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H4975. 2022-09-01
Description: By Mr. Roy of Franklin, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1190) of Jeffrey N. Roy relative to patient cost, benefit, and coverage information, choice, and price transparency. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to improve the health insurance prior authorization process
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H4975. 2022-09-01
Description: By Mr. Santiago of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1200) of Jon Santiago and others relative to the health insurance prior authorization process. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: Mental Health-Various
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-19
Last Action Date: Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jil Tracy. 2022-07-19
Description: Creates the Ensuring a More Qualified, Competent, and Diverse Community Behavioral Health Workforce Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health, to award grants or contracts to licensed community mental health centers or behavioral health clinics to establish or enhance training and supervision of interns and behavioral health providers-in-training pursuing licensure as a licensed clinical social worker, licensed clinical professional counselor, and licensed marriage and family therapist. Creates the Mental Health Assessment Reform Act to remove barriers to care in the Medicaid mental health assessment and treatment planning process. Creates the Recovery and Mental Health Tax Credit Act. Requires the Department to establish and administer a recovery tax credit program to provide tax incentives to qualified employers who employ eligible individuals in recovery from a substance use disorder or mental illness in part-time and full-time positions. Creates an Advisory Council to advise the Department regarding employment of persons with mental illnesses and substance use disorders in minority communities. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act to make conforming changes. Amends the Department of Healthcare and Family Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to take all necessary action to ensure that proposed modifications, additions, deletions, or amendments to the healthcare and behavioral healthcare (mental health and substance use disorder) provisions of the Illinois Public Aid Code are announced, shared, disseminated, and explained prior to the Department undertaking such proposed modifications, if legally possible and subject to federal law. Amends the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. Provides that an individual applying for licensure as a clinical social worker who has been licensed at the independent level in another jurisdiction for 5 (rather than 10) consecutive years without discipline is not required to submit proof of completion of education and supervised clinical professional experience. Makes similar changes to the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act and to the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. Effective immediately. Reinserts the provisions creating the Recovery and Mental Health Tax Credit Act with the following changes: Requires the Department of Human Services to maintain an electronic listing of the tax credit certificates it issues under the recovery tax credit program so that the Department of Revenue may confirm the eligibility of qualified employers for the tax credit. Provides that the tax credit authorized under the Act may not be carried forward. Contains provisions concerning tax credits for partners, shareholders of S corporations, and owners of limited liability companies. Makes other changes. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that a taxpayer who has been awarded a credit under the Recovery and Mental Health Tax Credit Act is entitled to a credit against the tax imposed under specified provisions of the Illinois Income Tax Act. Amends the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act, the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act, and the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law certain requirements set forth in those Acts to restore an inactive or expired license of 5 years or less are suspended for specified licensed clinicians who have had no disciplinary action taken against their licenses in this State or in any other jurisdiction during the entire period of licensure. Removes provisions creating the Mental Health Assessment Reform Act. Removes amendatory changes made to the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act permitting the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to adopt emergency rules to implement the Mental Health Assessment Reform Act. Reinserts the provisions creating the Recovery and Mental Health Tax Credit Act with the following changes: Requires the Department of Human Services to maintain an electronic listing of the certificates of tax credit issued by which the Department of Revenue may verify tax credit certificates issued to qualifying employers. Provides that the tax credit authorized under the Act may not be carried forward. Provides that a taxpayer who is a qualified employer who has received a certificate of tax credit from the Department shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed equal to the amount shown on such certificate of tax credit. Provides that if the taxpayer is a partnership or Subchapter S corporation the credit shall be allowed to the partners or shareholders in accordance with the determination of income and distributive share of income as provided under specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Makes other changes. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, a taxpayer who has been awarded a credit under the Recovery and Mental Health Tax Credit Act is entitled to a credit against the tax imposed under specified provisions of the Illinois Income Tax Act. Removes the amendatory changes made to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services Law requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to take all necessary action to ensure that proposed modifications, additions, deletions, or amendments to the healthcare and behavioral healthcare (mental health and substance use disorder) provisions of the Illinois Public Aid Code are announced, shared, disseminated, and explained prior to the Department undertaking such proposed modifications, if legally possible. Further amends the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act. In a provision suspending the requirements under the Act for restoration of an inactive or expired clinical psychologist license, provides that an individual may not restore his or her license more than once. Further amends the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. In a provision suspending the requirements under the Act for restoration of an inactive or expired clinical social worker license, provides that an individual may not restore his or her license more than once. Removes a provision exempting individuals applying for a clinical social worker license who are licensed in another jurisdiction from submitting proof of passage of the examination for the practice of clinical social work as authorized by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Further amends the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. In a provision suspending the requirements under the Act for restoration of an inactive or expired clinical professional counselor license, provides that an individual may not restore his or her license more than once. Makes other changes. Further amends the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013. Defines the term "APRN". Provides that, for purposes of the Act, any required psychiatric visit to a consumer may be conducted by an APRN or by a physician.
Location: US-IL
Title: Health care liens; limitation
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2022-07-06
Location: US-AZ
Title: An Act limiting out of pocket expenses
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see H4960. 2022-07-05
Description: By Mr. Mark of Peru, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1295) of Paul W. Mark relative to the maximum amount of deductibles and copayments for covered services for active and retired employees, their dependents and the survivors of deceased public employees. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: Community Health, Department of; statistical reports data relating to state health plans be posted on department website; require
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-08
Last Action Date: Effective Date. 2022-07-01
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Community Health, so as to require that statistical reports containing data relating to state health plans be posted on the department website; to provide for a definition; to provide for content of the reports; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Health and insurance; clarify that the prudent layperson standard is not affected by the diagnoses given
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-11
Last Action Date: Effective Date. 2022-07-01
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 and Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency medical services and insurance, respectively, so as to clarify that the prudent layperson standard is not affected by the diagnoses given; to provide for unfair claims settlement practices; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act; a medical or traumatic condition includes a mental health condition or substance use disorder; emergency medical services include post-stabilization services; clarify
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-03-01
Last Action Date: Effective Date. 2022-07-01
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurance, so as to clarify that, under the Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act, a medical or traumatic condition, sickness, or injury includes a mental health condition or substance use disorder and that emergency medical services include post-stabilization services; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: An Act relative to step therapy and patient safety
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: New draft substituted, see H4929. 2022-06-28
Description: By Representatives Roy of Franklin and Decker of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1311) of Jeffrey N. Roy, Marjorie C. Decker and others relative to step therapy and patient safety. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: Medical Ethics and Diversity Act
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Act No. 235. 2022-06-28
Description: An Act To Amend The Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, To Enact The "Medical Ethics And Diversity Act" By Adding Chapter 139 To Title 44 So As To Set Forth Findings Of The General Assembly Regarding The Right Of Conscience In The Health Care Industry; To Define Certain Terms; To Authorize Medical Practitioners, Health Care Institutions, And Health Care Payers Not To Participate In Health Care Services That Violate The Practitioner'S Or Entity'S Conscience And To Protect These Individuals And Entities From Civil, Criminal, Or Administrative Liability And From Discrimination For Exercising Their Personal Right Of Conscience, With Exceptions; To Allow Medical Practitioners And Health Care Institutions To File A Complaint With The State Human Affairs Commission For An Alleged Violation Of The Chapter; And For Other Purposes; And To Amend Section 44-41-55, Relating To The Right Of Certain Medical Providers Not To Participate In Abortion Procedures, So As Also To Apply To Medical Students. - Ratified Title
Location: US-SC
Title: Relating To Child Passenger Restraints.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-21
Last Action Date: Act 122, on 06/27/2022 (Gov. Msg. No. 1223).. 2022-06-27
Description: Amends requirements for the restraint of child passengers. Requires a rear-facing child passenger restraint system with harness for children under two years of age. Repeals exceptions for compliance. Raises certain fines for violations. (CD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies (Requires Insurance Providers To Seek Recoupment Or Set Off Of Insurance Payments Made To Health Care Providers Within Twelve (12) Months And Requires Health Care Providers To Seek Reimbursement For Underpayment Within Twelve (12) Months.)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-25
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2022-06-27
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies (Requires Insurance Providers To Seek Recoupment Or Set Off Of Insurance Payments Made To Health Care Providers Within Twelve (12) Months And Requires Health Care Providers To Seek Reimbursement For Underpayment Within Twelve (12) Months.)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-04
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2022-06-27
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Individual Health Insurance Coverage (Establishes A Special Enrollment Provision For Pregnant Women To Obtain Health Insurance Coverage At Any Time After The Commencement Of The Pregnancy.)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-11
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2022-06-27
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Individual Health Insurance Coverage (Establishes A Special Enrollment Provision For Pregnant Women To Obtain Health Insurance Coverage At Any Time After The Commencement Of The Pregnancy.)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-03-01
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2022-06-27
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act providing for patient access to diagnostics and treatments for Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses; and requiring health care policies to provide certain coverage.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-04-12
Last Action Date: Referred to HEALTH. 2022-06-24
Location: US-PA
Title: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMON SUMMARY PAYMENT FORM FOR SENSITIVE HEALTH CARE SERVICES.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-06-30
Last Action Date: Stricken in House. 2022-06-23
Description: The ability of insured dependents and other insured members to receive confidential sensitive health care services without the knowledge of the insured policyholder is greatly impeded through traditional billing processes utilized by health insurers. The most frequent form used is an explanation of benefit (EOB) sent to the policyholder after anyone covered under the policy receives care. The lack of confidentiality for sensitive health care services significantly impacts young adults between the ages of 18-26 years of age that are on their parents’ health insurance plans and adults covered as dependents under abusive spouse or family member’s plans. This results in dependents simply avoiding necessary health care for these sensitive health care services. This Act (1) requires health carriers to use a common summary of payment form, developed by the Department of Insurance, in collaboration with health insurers, for defined sensitive health care services; (2) prohibits the health carriers from specifying any defined sensitive health care services in the form; (3) allows health carriers to address the form to the insured member; (4) allows insured member to choose their preferred method of receiving said form; (5) allows the insured member to opt-out of receiving the form when there is no payment liability for the visit or service provided; (6) requires the Department of Insurance and Division of Public Health to educate health care providers and health carriers on the new law. The effective dates for guidance and education requirement are 3 and 6 months, respectively, after enactment.
Location: US-DE
Title: INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to cost sharing for insulin prescriptions (EN +$16,474 SG EX See Note)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-03-04
Last Action Date: Effective date: 08/01/2022.. 2022-06-18
Location: US-LA
Title: An Act Relating To Human Services -- Medical Assistance (Requires The Auditor General To Oversee An Audit Of Medicaid Programs Administered By Managed Care Organizations And Submit A Report Of Such Findings Within Six (6) Months To The General Assembly And Eohhs.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-01
Last Action Date: Committee heard. 2022-06-14
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Health And Safety -- Comprehensive Health Insurance Program (Establishes A Universal, Comprehensive, Affordable Single-Payer Health Care Insurance Program And Helps Control Health Care Costs, Which Would Be Referred To As, "The Rhode Island Comprehensive Health Insurance Program" (Richip).)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-24
Last Action Date: Committee heard. 2022-06-14
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act establishing medicare for all in Massachusetts
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2917. 2022-06-09
Description: By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 766) of James B. Eldridge, Lindsay N. Sabadosa, Jack Patrick Lewis, Paul R. Feeney and other members of the General Court for legislation to establish medicare for all in Massachusetts. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to accountable care
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means. 2022-06-09
Description: By Mr. Keenan, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 780) of John F. Keenan for legislation relative to accountable care. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to patient centered access to behavioral health services in accountable care organizations
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2917. 2022-06-09
Description: By Mr. Moore, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 806) of Michael O. Moore for legislation relative to patient centered access to behavioral health services in accountable care organizations. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to remove administrative barriers to behavioral health services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2920. 2022-06-09
Description: By Mr. Keenan, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1295) of John F. Keenan and Elizabeth A. Malia for legislation to remove administrative barriers to behavioral health services. Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to out-of-network billing
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means. 2022-06-09
Description: By Ms. Friedman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 674) of Cindy F. Friedman for legislation relative to out-of-network billing. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to ensure more affordable care
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2917. 2022-06-09
Description: By Mr. Keenan, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 782) of John F. Keenan, Anne M. Gobi, Jack Patrick Lewis, James B. Eldridge and other members of the General Court for legislation to ensure more affordable care. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: Health Exchange Education Campaign Health-care Services
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-20
Last Action Date: Governor Signed. 2022-06-08
Description: The act requires the board of directors (board) of the Colorado health benefit exchange (exchange) to create and implement a consumer outreach campaign (campaign) to educate consumers regarding options for health-care coverage. To pay for the campaign, the amount of the tax credits that the commissioner of insurance is allowed to allocate to insurers that contribute to the exchange increases from $5 million to $9 million for a 6-year period. The board is required to annually report its progress and accounting to the Colorado health insurance exchange oversight committee at the committee's first meeting of the calendar year starting in 2024. The requirements of the act repeal on December 31, 2028. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Location: US-CO
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies (Requires Every Individual Or Group Health Insurance Contract Effective On Or After January 1, 2023, To Provide Coverage To The Insured And The Insured'S Spouse And Dependents For All Fda-Approved Contraceptive Drugs, Devices And Other Products.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-15
Last Action Date: Referred to House Finance. 2022-06-08
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government -- The Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act Of 2004 -- Health Insurance Oversight (Same As 21H-5772 -- Requires The Health Insurance Commissioner To Adopt A Uniform Set Of Medical Criteria For Prior Authorization And Create A Required Form To Be Used By A Health Insurer.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-06
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2022-06-07
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government -- The Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act Of 2004--Health Insurance Oversight (Requires The Health Insurance Commissioner To Adopt A Uniform Set Of Medical Criteria For Prior Authorization And Create A Required Form To Be Used By A Health Insurer.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-25
Last Action Date: Referred to House Corporations. 2022-06-07
Location: US-RI
Title: Authorizes collaborative programs for community paramedicine services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: COMMITTED TO RULES. 2022-06-03
Description: Authorizes collaborative programs for community paramedicine services as part of the hospital-home care-physician collaboration program.
Location: US-NY
Title: Enacts the model overdose mapping and response act
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-05
Last Action Date: COMMITTED TO RULES. 2022-06-03
Description: Enacts the model overdose mapping and response act.
Location: US-NY
Title: Regards emergency prescription refills
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-03
Last Action Date: Effective. 2022-06-01
Description: To amend sections 4729.281 and 4729.283 and to enact section 3902.62 of the Revised Code regarding emergency prescription refills.
Location: US-OH
Title: Public Health - As enacted, prohibits a hospital from restricting a patient from having at least one patient representative as a visitor during a period when COVID-19 is a healthcare concern, if certain requirements met; specifies that the requirement that any disciplinary process, or action taken pursuant to such process, that is implemented by a health-related board regarding the dispensing or prescribing of medication for COVID-19 must be promulgated as an administrative rule does not apply to the dispensing or prescribing of controlled substances; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 29; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-02
Last Action Date: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1073. 2022-06-01
Location: US-TN
Title: Public Health - As enacted, prohibits a hospital from restricting a patient from having at least one patient representative as a visitor during a period when COVID-19 is a healthcare concern, if certain requirements met; specifies that the requirement that any disciplinary process, or action taken pursuant to such process, that is implemented by a health-related board regarding the dispensing or prescribing of medication for COVID-19 must be promulgated as an administrative rule does not apply to the dispensing or prescribing of controlled substances; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 29; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-02
Last Action Date: Effective date(s) 05/25/2022. 2022-06-01
Location: US-TN
Title: Prohibits state contracts with contractors who do not provide health insurance which covers supplemental breast cancer screenings
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-21
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS. 2022-05-31
Description: Prohibits state contracts with contractors who do not provide health insurance which covers supplemental breast cancer screenings; authorizes the comptroller to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations.
Location: US-NY
Title: Prohibits state contracts with contractors who do not provide health insurance which covers services for transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive people
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-24
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS. 2022-05-31
Description: Prohibits state contracts with contractors who do not provide health insurance which covers services for transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive people.
Location: US-NY
Title: Pharmacists - Administration of Injectable Medications for Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-10-28
Last Action Date: Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 720. 2022-05-29
Description: Defining "injectable medications for treatment of sexually transmitted infections" for purposes of authorizing pharmacists to administer the medications; and requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, and the Maryland Children's Health Program to provide certain coverage for the administration of the medication by a pharmacist.
Location: US-MD
Title: Health Information Exchanges – Definition and Privacy Regulations
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-13
Last Action Date: Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 718. 2022-05-29
Description: Altering the definition of a "health information exchange" as used in provisions of law governing the confidentiality of medical records; and providing that regulations governing the privacy and security of protected health information obtained or released through a health information exchange may not prohibit the sharing and disclosing of information that is required to be exchanged under federal law or for payment purposes or the use of electronic health information for purposes important to public health.
Location: US-MD
Title: Commission to Study the Health Care Workforce Crisis in Maryland - Establishment
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-26
Last Action Date: Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 708. 2022-05-29
Description: Establishing the Commission to Study the Health Care Workforce Crisis in Maryland to examine certain areas related to health care workforce shortages in the State, including the extent of the workforce shortage, short-term solutions to the workforce shortage, future health care workforce needs, and the relationship between the Maryland Department of Health and the health occupations boards; and requiring the Commission to submit a final report of its findings to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 31, 2023.
Location: US-MD
Title: Public Health - Consumer Health Information - Hub and Requirements
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-10
Last Action Date: Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 679. 2022-05-29
Description: Designating the University of Maryland Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Literacy as the State's Consumer Health Information Hub; requiring State and local agencies to use plain language in public communications about health, safety, and social services benefits; providing that the provisions of the Act are not subject to judicial review and do not create a judicial or administrative right of action; and establishing grant requirements related to health literacy.
Location: US-MD
Title: State Medicaid program; Ensuring Access to Medicaid Act; broadening certain definition; reimbursements; providers; pharmacists; effective date; emergency; contingent effectiveness.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-05-03
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 05/26/2022. 2022-05-26
Location: US-OK
Title: INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to coordination of benefits requirements
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-03-02
Last Action Date: Effective date: 01/01/2023.. 2022-05-26
Location: US-LA
Title: INSURERS: Prohibits certain health insurance cost-sharing practices. (gov sig)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-03-04
Last Action Date: Effective date 5/26/2022.. 2022-05-26
Location: US-LA
Title: Limits the substitution of abuse-deterrent analgesic opioid drug products for analgesic opioids lacking such technology
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-05
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-05-25
Description: Provides for patient access to FDA approved abuse-deterrent technology to help combat opioid abuse.
Location: US-NY
Title: Children Mental Health Council
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-21
Last Action Date: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0899. 2022-05-25
Description: Creates the Children's Mental Health Council Act. Creates the Children's Mental Health Council. Requires the Council to conduct at least 4 meeting each year, research and provide recommendations for the General Assembly on children with mental and behavioral disabilities and residential placements around the State and out of state, research and provide recommendations on how State agencies will be able to provide emergency placement for children with disabilities, research and provide recommendations on expanding residential beds and increasing the workforce, and review and provide recommendations for the General Assembly, State Board of Education, Department of Children and Family Services, Department of Healthcare and Family Services, Department of Juvenile Justice, and any other agency that is involved in the process of the placement of a child. Provides guidelines for appointing members. Provides terms for members appointed by the Governor. Provides that the State Board of Education shall provide administrative support. Provides that the Council shall prepare and deliver annual reports to the General Assembly, the Governor, and certain State agencies with any recommendations for legislation and any additional recommendations regarding children's mental and behavioral health. Provides that the Act is repealed on January 1, 2032. Effective immediately. Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Children's Mental Health Act of 2003. Adds a requirement that the Children's Mental Health Plan include recommendations on how to more effectively meet the emergency and residential placement needs for all children with severe mental and behavioral challenges. Adds representatives of community mental health provider trade organizations to the group of representatives to the Children's Mental Health Partnership that are appointed by the Governor. Provides that the annual report will be delivered to the Governor and the General Assembly (currently, only the Governor). Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Children's Mental Health Act of 2003. Changes the title of the Act to the "Children's Mental Health Act". Provides that the Children's Mental Health Partnership shall advise the State of Illinois on designing and implementing short-term and long-term strategies to provide comprehensive and coordinated services for children from birth to age 25 and their families with the goal of addressing children's mental health needs across a full continuum of care. Provides that the Partnership shall have the responsibility of developing and updating the Children's Mental Health Plan and advising the relevant State agencies on implementation of the Plan (instead of developing and monitoring the implementation of the Plan as approved by the Governor). Removes provisions concerning development of previous Plans. Provides for the powers and duties of the Partnership. Provides that the Partnership shall submit: an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the progress of the Plans; recommendations regarding State policies, laws, or rules necessary to fulfill the purposes of the Act; and any additional recommendations regarding mental or behavioral health that the Partnership deems necessary. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall provide technical and administrative support for the Partnership. Effective January 1, 2023. Provides that a representative of a statewide organization representing pediatricians shall also be included as one of the required public representatives of the Partnership appointed by the Governor.
Location: US-IL
Title: Limiting utilization review conducted by health plans under certain circumstances involving the treatment of mental illness or substance abuse disorder.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-15
Last Action Date: Died in Committee. 2022-05-23
Location: US-KS
Title: Establishing a $100 maximum out-of-pocket cost-share per month per covered person for prescription insulin drugs.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-21
Last Action Date: Died in Committee. 2022-05-23
Location: US-KS
Title: Limiting utilization review conducted by health plans under certain circumstances involving the treatment of mental illness or substance abuse disorder.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-26
Last Action Date: Died in Committee. 2022-05-23
Location: US-KS
Title: Establishing restrictions on the use of step therapy protocols by health insurance plans.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Died in Committee. 2022-05-23
Location: US-KS
Title: Prohibiting certain billing practices by health insurers and enacting the end surprise medical bills act.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-10
Last Action Date: Died in Committee. 2022-05-23
Location: US-KS
Title: Allowing naturopathic doctors to engage in the corporate practice of medicine.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-23
Last Action Date: Died in Committee. 2022-05-23
Location: US-KS
Title: Enacting the Kansas health act and creating a universal single-payer guaranteed healthcare coverage program.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-05-26
Last Action Date: Died in Committee. 2022-05-23
Location: US-KS
Title: Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer, expanding eligibility for medicaid postpartum coverage to 12 months and requiring children's health insurance coverage eligibility to be tied to current federal poverty income guidelines.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-09
Last Action Date: Died in Committee. 2022-05-23
Location: US-KS
Title: Pharmacists administration of drugs through intramuscular and subcutaneous administration establishment; pharmacist placement of drug monitoring devices authorization
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-31
Last Action Date: Second reading. 2022-05-19
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies (Requires Every Individual Or Group Health Insurance Contract Effective On Or After January 1, 2023, To Provide Coverage To The Insured And The Insured'S Spouse And Dependents For All Fda-Approved Contraceptive Drugs, Devices And Other Products.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-02
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2022-05-19
Location: US-RI
Title: HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides the original intent of the Louisiana Legislature authorized contracts between health insurers and healthcare providers allowed for benefits to be available to its affiliates. (gov sig)
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-03
Last Action Date: Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title; failed to pass by a vote of 18 yeas and 19 nays. Motion to reconsider tabled.. 2022-05-17
Location: US-LA
Title: Modifies provisions relating to the health professional student loan repayment program
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-05
Last Action Date: Referred: Professional Registration and Licensing(H). 2022-05-13
Location: US-MO
Title: Modifies provisions relating to continuing education requirements for health care professionals
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-19
Last Action Date: Referred: Professional Registration and Licensing(H). 2022-05-13
Location: US-MO
Title: An act relating to miscellaneous provisions affecting health insurance regulation
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-07
Last Action Date: House message: Governor approved bill on [May 24, 2022]. 2022-05-12
Location: US-VT
Title: Health Insurance - Two-Sided Incentive Arrangements and Capitated Payments - Authorization
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-07
Last Action Date: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 298. 2022-05-12
Description: Providing that value-based arrangements established under certain provisions of federal law are exempt from certain provisions of State law regulating health care practitioner referrals; providing that a health care practitioner or set of health care practitioners that accepts capitated payments in a certain manner but does not perform certain other acts is not considered to be performing acts of an insurance business; prohibiting participation in a certain arrangement from being the sole opportunity for increases in reimbursement; etc.
Location: US-MD
Title: Health Insurance - Two-Sided Incentive Arrangements and Capitated Payments - Authorization
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-11
Last Action Date: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 297. 2022-05-12
Description: Providing that value-based arrangements established under certain provisions of federal law are exempt from certain provisions of State law regulating health care practitioner referrals; providing that a health care practitioner or set of health care practitioners that accepts capitated payments in a certain manner but does not perform certain other acts is not considered to be performing acts of an insurance business; etc.
Location: US-MD
Title: An Act Relating To Human Services -- Medical Assistance (Requires The Auditor General To Oversee Audits Of Medicaid Programs And Report Findings To The General Assembly And Eohhs And Requires A Plan From Eohhs To End Privatized Managed Care And Institute A State Run Plan.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-02
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2022-05-12
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Medical Insurance Coverage For Epinephrine Injectors (Same As 21H-5463--Requires Group Health Plans And Health Insurance Issuers That Provide Prescription Benefits To Cover Prescribed Epinephrine Injectors And Cartridges/No Copayment Or Deductible Would Be Required To Obtain A Prescribed Epinephrine Injector)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-06
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2022-05-11
Location: US-RI
Title: Modifies provisions relating to health care
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-05
Last Action Date: Placed on the Informal Perfection Calendar (H). 2022-05-09
Location: US-MO
Title: Modifies provisions relating to telemedicine
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-20
Last Action Date: Placed on the Informal Perfection Calendar (H). 2022-05-09
Location: US-MO
Title: Health insurance; requiring health benefit plans to administer certain coverage. Effective date.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 05/04/2022. 2022-05-04
Location: US-OK
Title: establishing an association health plan pilot program.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-12-14
Last Action Date: Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 05/04/2022 HJ 11. 2022-05-04
Location: US-NH
Title: Providing for short-term, limited-duration health plans.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-10
Last Action Date: No motion to reconsider vetoed bill; Veto sustained. 2022-04-28
Location: US-KS
Title: Statewide Telehealth Plan; Board of Health shall contract with the Virginia Telehealth Network.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724). 2022-04-27
Description: Board of Health; Statewide Telehealth Plan; Virginia Telehealth Network. Requires the Board of Health (the Board) to consult with the Virginia Telehealth Network in amending and maintaining the Statewide Telehealth Plan. The bill requires the Board to contract with the Virginia Telehealth Network, or another Virginia-based nongovernmental, nonprofit organization focused on telehealth if the Virginia Telehealth Network is no longer in existence, to (i) provide direct consultation to any advisory groups and groups tasked by the Board with implementation and data collection, (ii) track implementation of the Statewide Telehealth Plan, and (iii) facilitate changes to the Statewide Telehealth Plan as accepted medical practices and technologies evolve. This bill is identical to HB 81.
Location: US-VA
Title: Individualized investigational treatment; availability; prohibitions
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-13
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2022-04-25
Location: US-AZ
Title: Reducing copay cap on insulin and devices
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-04-25
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-04-25
Location: US-WV
Title: Ins-Health Care/Cost Sharing
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0704. 2022-04-22
Description: Amends the Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act. In provisions concerning a requirement that a health care plan shall apply any third-party payments, financial assistance, discount, product vouchers, or any other reduction in out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured for prescription drugs toward a covered individual's deductible, copay, cost-sharing responsibility, or out-of-pocket maximum associated with the individual's health insurance, provides that if application of that requirement would result in ineligibility of a health savings account under federal law, the requirement applies to health savings account-qualified high deductible health plans with respect to the deductible of a plan after the enrollee has satisfied a specified minimum deductible, except with respect to specified items or services, in which case the requirement applies regardless of whether the minimum deductible has been satisfied. Effective immediately.
Location: US-IL
Title: Insurance - Conformity With Federal Law - The No Surprises Act and Other Provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-10-04
Last Action Date: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 229. 2022-04-21
Description: Providing that the federal No Surprises Act and certain other provisions of the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 regarding transparency apply to all insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that deliver or issue for delivery in the State policies or contracts for a health benefit plan, blanket health insurance, or short-term limited duration insurance; and authorizing the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to enforce the Act.
Location: US-MD
Title: COVID-19 vaccine mandate; prohibit state and local government from imposing.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor. 2022-04-21
Description: An Act To Prohibit A State Agency, Public Official, State Institution Of Higher Learning, Public Community Or Junior College, County, Municipality Or Other Political Subdivision Of The State From Refusing Services, Health Care Access Or Employment Opportunities To A Person, Or Otherwise Discriminate Against A Person, Based Upon His Or Her Covid-19 Vaccination Status Or Possession Of A Covid-19 Immunity Passport; To Define The Terms "Immunity Passport" And "Covid-19 Vaccination Status"; To Provide A Certain Exemption For Health Care Facilities; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: LB718 - Provide requirements for cost-sharing and coverage relating to health care benefits and pharmacy benefit managers
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-05
Last Action Date: Indefinitely postponed. 2022-04-20
Location: US-NE
Title: LB719 - Change provisions under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act relating to physicians, compensation, and benefits and require cost-of-living adjustments and payment for interpreter services
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-05
Last Action Date: Indefinitely postponed. 2022-04-20
Location: US-NE
Title: LB737 - Adopt the Primary Care Investment Act
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-05
Last Action Date: Provisions/portions of LB737 amended into LB863 by AM1913. 2022-04-20
Location: US-NE
Title: LB943 - Prohibit certain provisions in a health plan in relation to clinician-administered drugs
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: Indefinitely postponed. 2022-04-20
Location: US-NE
Title: LB956 - Change provisions relating to confidential public health information
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: Indefinitely postponed. 2022-04-20
Location: US-NE
Title: LB963 - Adopt the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Indefinitely postponed. 2022-04-20
Location: US-NE
Title: LB1106 - Change provisions of the Mental Health Practice Act
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-19
Last Action Date: Indefinitely postponed. 2022-04-20
Location: US-NE
Title: LB1076 - Appropriate federal funds to the Department of Health and Human Services to develop software to streamline coordination of care for children with medically complex conditions
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-18
Last Action Date: Indefinitely postponed. 2022-04-20
Location: US-NE
Title: Prohibiting discrimination in organ donation process
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-16
Last Action Date: Chapter 226, Acts, Regular Session, 2022. 2022-04-20
Location: US-WV
Title: Health insurance enrollee contribution toward out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirements specification
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-17
Last Action Date: Authors added Rest; Klein. 2022-04-19
Location: US-MN
Title: Pilot freestanding emergency room; require the Department of Health to issue not more than five licenses.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor. 2022-04-18
Description: An Act To Amend Section 41-75-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Create A Definition For Pilot Freestanding Emergency Rooms For The Purpose Of Licensure; To Amend Section 41-75-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The State Department Of Health Shall Not Issue Licenses For More Than Five Pilot Freestanding Emergency Rooms; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Relating To Health Care.
Current Status: Passed Senate
Introduction Date: 2022-01-21
Last Action Date: Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 715).. 2022-04-18
Description: Establishes the Rural Health Task Force within the Center for Nursing to prepare and develop solutions and make recommendations on registered nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas of Maui, Molokai, and Lanai. Requires the Rural Health Task Force to submit reports of its findings, recommendations, and any proposed legislation to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2023, and prior to the Regular Session of 2024. (SD2)
Location: US-HI
Title: AN ACT ESTABLISHING A STATE-WIDE STROKE REGISTRY.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-28
Last Action Date: Tabled for the Calendar, House. 2022-04-18
Description: To establish a state-wide stroke registry.
Location: US-CT
Title: Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, prohibits a health benefit plan from denying payment or coverage for emergency services if the symptoms presented by an enrollee of a health benefit plan and recorded by the attending provider indicate that an emergency medical condition could exist, regardless of the final diagnosis of the symptoms. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-02
Last Action Date: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 784. 2022-04-13
Location: US-TN
Title: Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, prohibits a health benefit plan from denying payment or coverage for emergency services if the symptoms presented by an enrollee of a health benefit plan and recorded by the attending provider indicate that an emergency medical condition could exist, regardless of the final diagnosis of the symptoms. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-01
Last Action Date: Effective date(s) 04/08/2022. 2022-04-13
Location: US-TN
Title: Health Insurance – Individual Market Stabilization – Extension of Provider Fee
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-19
Last Action Date: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 59. 2022-04-12
Description: Continuing the stabilization of the individual health insurance market by extending to calendar year 2028 the assessment of a health insurance provider fee; exempting stand-alone vision and dental plan carriers that are subject to the health insurance provider fee assessment from the health care regulatory assessment fee and annual assessment fee in certain years; and providing that funds from the distribution of the health insurance provider fee assessment can be used only for certain purposes.
Location: US-MD
Title: Carrier & managed care health insurance plans; VDH to review efficiency & productivity, etc.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646). 2022-04-11
Description: Health care data report; carriers. Directs the Department of Health, through its contract with the nonprofit organization that compiles and evaluates health care data on behalf of the Commonwealth and in consultation with the Bureau of Insurance of the State Corporation Commission (the Bureau), to (i) develop and implement a methodology to review and measure the efficiency and productivity of health care providers and carriers other than limited scope dental or vision plans and managed care health insurance plans and (ii) make available to the public on a website maintained by the nonprofit organization such data and information and other reports collected or produced as a result of implementation of such methodology by July 1, 2023. The bill also requires the Bureau to convene a stakeholder work group to (a) provide input on the development of the methodology required by the act; (b) identify additional measures to increase the transparency of information provided to the Bureau by carriers, managed care health insurance plans, and health care providers; and (c) determine what additional information should be provided to the nonprofit organization by carriers, managed care health insurance plan providers, and health care providers to foster transparency and competition among both carriers and health care providers and assist consumers in making educated decisions regarding options for health care coverage and access. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2022.
Location: US-VA
Title: Group health benefit plans; sponsoring associations, formation of benefits consortium, definitions.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405). 2022-04-11
Description: Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations; formation of benefits consortium. Provides that certain trusts constitute a benefits consortium and are authorized to sell health benefit plans to members of a sponsoring association that (i) has been formed and maintained in good faith for purposes other than obtaining or providing health benefits; (ii) does not condition membership in the sponsoring association on any factor relating to the health status of an individual, including an employee of a member of the sponsoring association or a dependent of such an employee; (iii) makes any health benefit plan available to all members regardless of any factor relating to the health status of such members or individuals eligible for coverage through a member; (iv) does not make any health benefit plan available to any person who is not a member of the association; (v) makes available health plans or health benefit plans that meet requirements provided for in the bill; (vi) operates as a nonprofit entity under § 501(c)(5) or 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code; and (vii) has been in active existence for at least five years. The bill replaces references to "bona fide association," as used in provisions applicable to health care plans in the small employer market, with the term "sponsoring association." The bill requires any health benefit plan issued by a self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) that covers one or more employees of one or more small employers to (a) provide essential health benefits and cost-sharing requirements; (b) offer a minimum level of coverage designed to provide benefits that are actuarially equivalent to 60 percent of the full actuarial value of the benefits provided under the plan; (c) not limit or exclude coverage for an individual by imposing a preexisting condition exclusion on that individual; (d) be prohibited from establishing discriminatory rules based on health status related to eligibility or premium or contribution requirements as imposed on health carriers; (e) meet the renewability standards set forth for health insurance issuers; (f) establish base rates formed on an actuarially sound, modified community rating methodology that considers the pooling of all participant claims; and (g) utilize each employer member's specific risk profile to determine premiums by actuarially adjusting above or below established base rates, and utilize either pooling or reinsurance of individual large claimants to reduce the adverse impact on any specific employer member's premiums. The bill prohibits a self-funded MEWA from issuing health benefit plans in the Commonwealth until it has obtained a license pursuant to regulations promulgated by the State Corporation Commission. The bill authorizes the Commission to adopt regulations applicable to self-funded MEWAs, including regulations addressing financial condition, solvency requirements, and the exclusion of self-funded MEWAs from the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association. This bill is identical to HB 884.
Location: US-VA
Title: Qualified health plans; state-mandated health benefits.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0560). 2022-04-11
Description: Qualified health plans; state-mandated health benefits. Authorizes a qualified health plan offered on the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to provide state-mandated health benefits that are not provided in the essential health benefits package. Under current law, qualified health plans are prohibited from providing such state-mandated health benefits. This bill is identical to SB 449.
Location: US-VA
Title: Health insurance; provider credentialing, receipt of application.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471). 2022-04-11
Description: Health insurance; provider credentialing; receipt of application. Requires the protocols and procedures for the reimbursement of new provider applicants that are established by a carrier that credentials providers in its network to require that the carrier provide recognition or notification of receipt of such applicant's credentialing application (i) electronically if the carrier uses an online credentialing system for new provider applicants or (ii) by mail or electronic mail, as selected by the applicant, within 10 days of receiving the application if the carrier does not use an online credentialing system. This bill is identical to SB 427.
Location: US-VA
Title: Group health benefit plans; sponsoring associations, formation of benefits consortium, definitions.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404). 2022-04-11
Description: Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations; formation of benefits consortium. Provides that certain trusts constitute a benefits consortium and are authorized to sell health benefit plans to members of a sponsoring association that (i) has been formed and maintained in good faith for purposes other than obtaining or providing health benefits; (ii) does not condition membership in the sponsoring association on any factor relating to the health status of an individual, including an employee of a member of the sponsoring association or a dependent of such an employee; (iii) makes any health benefit plan available to all members regardless of any factor relating to the health status of such members or individuals eligible for coverage through a member; (iv) does not make any health benefit plan available to any person who is not a member of the association; (v) makes available health plans or health benefit plans that meet requirements provided for in the bill; (vi) operates as a nonprofit entity under § 501(c)(5) or 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code; and (vii) has been in active existence for at least five years. The bill replaces references to "bona fide association," as used in provisions applicable to health care plans in the small employer market, with the term "sponsoring association." The bill requires any health benefit plan issued by a self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) that covers one or more employees of one or more small employers to (a) provide essential health benefits and cost-sharing requirements; (b) offer a minimum level of coverage designed to provide benefits that are actuarially equivalent to 60 percent of the full actuarial value of the benefits provided under the plan; (c) not limit or exclude coverage for an individual by imposing a preexisting condition exclusion on that individual; (d) be prohibited from establishing discriminatory rules based on health status related to eligibility or premium or contribution requirements as imposed on health carriers; (e) meet the renewability standards set forth for health insurance issuers; (f) establish base rates formed on an actuarially sound, modified community rating methodology that considers the pooling of all participant claims; and (g) utilize each employer member's specific risk profile to determine premiums by actuarially adjusting above or below established base rates, and utilize either pooling or reinsurance of individual large claimants to reduce the adverse impact on any specific employer member's premiums. The bill prohibits a self-funded MEWA from issuing health benefit plans in the Commonwealth until it has obtained a license pursuant to regulations promulgated by the State Corporation Commission. The bill authorizes the Commission to adopt regulations applicable to self-funded MEWAs, including regulations addressing financial condition, solvency requirements, and the exclusion of self-funded MEWAs from the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association. This bill is identical to SB 195.
Location: US-VA
Title: Qualified health plans; state-mandated health benefits.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556). 2022-04-11
Description: Qualified health plans; state-mandated health benefits. Authorizes a qualified health plan offered on the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to provide state-mandated health benefits that are not provided in the essential health benefits package. Under current law, qualified health plans are prohibited from providing such state-mandated health benefits. This bill is identical to HB 431.
Location: US-VA
Title: Health insurance; provider credentialing, receipt of application.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472). 2022-04-11
Description: Health insurance; provider credentialing; receipt of application. Requires the protocols and procedures for the reimbursement of new provider applicants that are established by a carrier that credentials providers in its network to require that the carrier provide recognition or notification of receipt of such applicant's credentialing application (i) electronically if the carrier uses an online credentialing system for new provider applicants or (ii) by mail or electronic mail, as selected by the applicant, within 10 days of receiving the application if the carrier does not use an online credentialing system. This bill is identical to HB 773.
Location: US-VA
Title: Out-of-state health care practitioners; temporary authorization to practice.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463). 2022-04-11
Description: Out-of-state health care practitioners; temporary authorization to practice; licensure by reciprocity for physicians; emergency. Allows a health care practitioner licensed in another state or the District of Columbia who has submitted an application for licensure to the appropriate health regulatory board to temporarily practice for a period of 90 days pending licensure, provided that certain conditions are met. The bill directs the Board of Medicine to pursue reciprocity agreements with jurisdictions that surround the Commonwealth to streamline the application process in order to facilitate the practice of medicine. The bill requires the Department of Health Professions to annually report to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions the number of out-of-state health care practitioners who have utilized the temporary authorization to practice pending licensure and have not subsequently been issued full licensure. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to SB 317.
Location: US-VA
Title: Patient's Right to Pharmacy Choice Act; retail pharmacy network access standards; pharmacy benefit managers; health insurers; effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-07
Last Action Date: Coauthored by Senator Garvin. 2022-04-11
Location: US-OK
Title: Telemedicine services; state plan for medical assistance services, provision for payment.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-19
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384). 2022-04-11
Description: State plan for medical assistance services; provision for payment of telemedicine services facilitated by emergency medical services. Directs the Board of Health to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for the payment of the originating site fee to emergency medical services agencies for facilitating synchronous telehealth visits with a distant site provider delivered to a Medicaid member. The bill defines "originating site" as any location where the patient is located, including any medical care facility or office of a health care provider, the home of the patient, the patient's place of employment, or any public or private primary or secondary school or postsecondary institution of higher education at which the person to whom telemedicine services are provided is located.
Location: US-VA
Title: Modifies provisions relating to peer review committees
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-01
Last Action Date: Voted Do Pass (H). 2022-04-11
Location: US-MO
Title: Managed Care Plan Performance
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-12-06
Last Action Date: Chapter No. 2022-54. 2022-04-08
Description: Requires managed care plans to collect & report specified measures beginning with certain data reporting period; requires plans to stratify reported measures by specified categories beginning with certain data reporting period; requires plan's performance to be published on its website in specified manner; requires AHCA to use measures to monitor plan performance.
Location: US-FL
Title: Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; annual marketing plan.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250). 2022-04-08
Description: Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; marketing. Requires the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to prepare an annual marketing plan that includes consumer outreach, licensed health insurance agents, and navigator programs. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care. This bill is identical to SB 469.
Location: US-VA
Title: Health insurance; carrier contracts, carrier provision of certain prescription drug information.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284). 2022-04-08
Description: Health insurance; carrier disclosure of certain information. Requires each health insurance carrier, beginning July 1, 2025, to establish and maintain an online process that (i) links directly to e-prescribing systems and electronic health record systems that utilize the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT standard; (ii) can accept electronic prior authorization requests from a provider; (iii) can approve electronic prior authorization requests for which no additional information is needed by the carrier to process the prior authorization request, no clinical review is required, and that meet the carrier's criteria for approval; and (iv) otherwise meets the requirements of the relevant Code of Virginia section. The bill prohibits a carrier from (a) imposing a charge or fee on a participating health care provider for accessing the required online process required or (b) accessing, absent provider consent, provider data via the online process other than for the enrollee. The bill requires participating health care providers, beginning July 1, 2025, to ensure that any e-prescribing system or electronic health record system owned by or contracted for the provider to maintain an enrollee's health record has the ability to access the electronic prior authorization process established by a carrier and real-time cost information data for a covered prescription drug made available by a carrier. The bill provides that a provider may request a waiver of compliance for undue hardship for a period not to exceed 12 months. The bill requires any carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager to provide real-time cost information data to enrollees and contracted providers for a covered prescription drug, including any cost-sharing requirement or prior authorization requirements, and to ensure that the data is accurate. The bill requires that such cost information data is available to the provider in a format that a provider can access and understand such as through the provider's e-prescribing system or electronic health record system for which the carrier or pharmacy benefits manager or its designated subcontractor has adopted that utilizes the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT standard from which the provider makes the request.
Location: US-VA
Title: Health insurance; carrier contracts, carrier provision of certain prescription drug information.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285). 2022-04-08
Description: Health insurance; carrier disclosure of certain information. Requires each health insurance carrier, beginning July 1, 2025, to establish and maintain an online process that (i) links directly to e-prescribing systems and electronic health record systems that utilize the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT standard; (ii) can accept electronic prior authorization requests from a provider; (iii) can approve electronic prior authorization requests for which no additional information is needed by the carrier to process the prior authorization request, no clinical review is required, and that meet the carrier's criteria for approval; and (iv) otherwise meets the requirements of the relevant Code of Virginia section. The bill prohibits a carrier from (a) imposing a charge or fee on a participating health care provider for accessing the required online process required or (b) accessing, absent provider consent, provider data via the online process other than for the enrollee. The bill requires participating health care providers, beginning July 1, 2025, to ensure that any e-prescribing system or electronic health record system owned by or contracted for the provider to maintain an enrollee's health record has the ability to access the electronic prior authorization process established by a carrier and real-time cost information data for a covered prescription drug made available by a carrier. The bill provides that a provider may request a waiver of compliance for undue hardship for a period not to exceed 12 months. The bill requires any carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager to provide real-time cost information data to enrollees and contracted providers for a covered prescription drug, including any cost-sharing requirement or prior authorization requirements, and to ensure that the data is accurate. The bill requires that such cost information data is available to the provider in a format that a provider can access and understand such as through the provider's e-prescribing system or electronic health record system for which the carrier or pharmacy benefits manager or its designated subcontractor has adopted that utilizes the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT standard from which the provider makes the request. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance (the Bureau) to, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, establish a work group to evaluate and make recommendations to modify the process for prior authorization for drug benefits in order to maximize efficiency and minimize delays that include a single standardized process and any recommendations for necessary statutory or regulatory changes. The bill requires the work group to include relevant stakeholders, including representatives from the Virginia Association of Health Plans, the Medical Society of Virginia, the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, the Virginia Pharmacists Association, and the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, and other parties with an interest in the underlying technology. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor and the House Committee on Commerce and Energy by November 1, 2022. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Bureau to establish the work group will not become effective unless reenacted by the 2023 Session of the General Assembly. This bill is identical to HB 360.
Location: US-VA
Title: Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; annual marketing plan.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251). 2022-04-08
Description: Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; marketing. Requires the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to prepare an annual marketing plan that includes consumer outreach, licensed health insurance agents, and navigator programs. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care. This bill is identical to HB 312.
Location: US-VA
Title: An Act establishing a behavioral health workforce center
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a new draft, see S2814. 2022-04-07
Description: By Mr. Keenan, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 839) of John F. Keenan for legislation to establish a behavioral health workforce center. Higher Education.
Location: US-MA
Title: Health insurance; calculation of enrollee's contribution, high deductible health plan.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0133). 2022-04-07
Description: Health insurance; calculation of enrollee's contribution; high deductible health plan. Provides that if the application of the requirement that a carrier, when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or any cost-sharing requirement under a health plan, include any amounts paid by the enrollee or paid on behalf of the enrollee by another person results in a health plan's ineligibility to qualify as a Health Savings Account-qualified High Deductible Health Plan under the federal Internal Revenue Code, then such requirement shall not apply to such health plan with respect to the deductible of such health plan until the enrollee has satisfied the minimum deductible required by the federal Internal Revenue Code. The bill provides such limitation does not apply with respect to items or services that are considered preventive care. This bill is identical to HB 1081.
Location: US-VA
Title: Health insurance; calculation of enrollee's contribution, high deductible health plan.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0134). 2022-04-07
Description: Health insurance; calculation of enrollee's contribution; high deductible health plan. Provides that if the application of the requirement that a carrier, when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or any cost-sharing requirement under a health plan, include any amounts paid by the enrollee or paid on behalf of the enrollee by another person results in a health plan's ineligibility to qualify as a Health Savings Account-qualified High Deductible Health Plan under the federal Internal Revenue Code, then such requirement shall not apply to such health plan with respect to the deductible of such health plan until the enrollee has satisfied the minimum deductible required by the federal Internal Revenue Code. The bill provides such limitation does not apply with respect to items or services that are considered preventive care. This bill is identical to SB 433.
Location: US-VA
Title: Medical assistance enrollees allowed to opt out of managed care enrollment.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-14
Last Action Date: Author added Bierman. 2022-04-07
Location: US-MN
Title: "An Act relating to insurance coverage for contraceptives and related services; relating to medical assistance coverage for contraceptives and related services; and providing for an effective date."
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: (H) COSPONSOR(S): RASMUSSEN. 2022-04-06
Location: US-AK
Title: Prohibit certain health insurance cost-sharing practices
Current Status: In Senate
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Referred to committee Health. 2022-04-06
Description: To amend section 1751.12 and to enact sections 3923.811 and 3959.21 of the Revised Code to prohibit certain health insurance cost-sharing practices.
Location: US-OH
Title: "Mississippi Health Care Workers Retention Act of 2022"; create.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Conference. 2022-04-05
Description: An Act To Create The "Mississippi Health Care Workers Retention Act Of 2022"; To Make An Additional Appropriation From The Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund To The State Department Of Health; To Provide That A Portion Of The Funds Shall Be Expended By The Department For Providing Funds To Mississippi Licensed Hospitals To Provide Premium Pay To Their Mississippi Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers Who Are Primarily Devoted To Mitigating Or Responding To The Current Covid-19 Public Health Emergency; To Provide That A Portion Of The Funds Shall Be Expended By The Department For Providing Funds To Mississippi Licensed Long-Term Care Facilities To Provide Premium Pay To Their Mississippi Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers Who Are Primarily Devoted To Mitigating Or Responding To The Current Covid-19 Public Health Emergency; To Provide That A Portion Of The Funds Shall Be Expended By The Department For Providing Funds To Mississippi Licensed Ambulance Services To Provide Premium Pay To Their Mississippi Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers Who Are Primarily Devoted To Mitigating Or Responding To The Current Covid-19 Public Health Emergency; To Provide That A Portion Of The Funds Shall Be Expended By The State Department Of Health For Providing Funds To Eligible Entities Under This Act To Provide Premium Pay To Their Mississippi Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers Who Are Primarily Devoted To Mitigating Or Responding To The Current Covid-19 Public Health Emergency To Be Distributed In The Manner That The Department Determines Is The Most Equitable And Efficient To Supplement The Funds Otherwise Provided And To Effectuate The Purposes Of This Act; To Provide That Mississippi Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers That Qualify For Premium Pay Under This Section Shall Receive Premium Pay Within 60 Days Of The Effective Date Of This Act Subject To The Recipient'S Written Agreement To Continue Employment With The Recipient'S Primary Current Employer Or Another Eligible Health Care Employer In The State Of Mississippi For Five Months Following The Receipt Of Such Premium Pay; To Further Provide That The Written Agreement Shall Be Developed And Promulgated By The Department And Include A Provision That The Licensed/Certified Health Care Worker May Be Required To Repay To The State Of Mississippi The Amount Of His Or Her Premium Pay Funds If The Terms Of The Agreement Are Not Met; To Provide Certain Reporting And Approval Requirements Under This Act; To Provide That None Of The Funds Provided Under This Section May Be Used To Provide Premium Pay To Any Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers Who Are Working Under A Contract With A Staffing Agency To Provide Services In The State Of Mississippi For A Limited Duration Of Less Than One Year, Such As Travel Nurses, As Determined By The Department; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: creating a student loan repayment program for volunteer emergency service providers administered by the Higher Educational Aids Board, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-09
Last Action Date: Fiscal estimate received. 2022-04-04
Description: An Act to create 20.235 (1) (cy) and 39.396 of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: Emergency Medical Services; prudent layperson standard is not affected by the final diagnosis given; clarify
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-03
Last Action Date: House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute. 2022-04-01
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency medical services, so as to clarify that the prudent layperson standard is not affected by the final diagnosis given; to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to also clarify that the prudent layperson standard is not affected by the final diagnosis given; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Unanticipated Out-Of-Network Bills For Health Care Services (Protects People With Health Insurance From Surprise Medical Bills For Emergency And Other Services By Requiring A Non-Participating Health Care Provider To Bill An Insured Party Only For A Co-Payment, Or Deductible.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-08
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2022-03-31
Location: US-RI
Title: No-cost diagnostic services and testing following a mammogram required.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Authors added Bahner and Huot. 2022-03-31
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act establishing a public health option
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2800. 2022-03-31
Description: By Mr. Lewis, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 787) of Jason M. Lewis for legislation to establish a public health option. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to clarify and enhance privacy protections for electronic health records
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2800. 2022-03-31
Description: By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 810) of Marc R. Pacheco and Michael D. Brady for legislation to clarify and enhance privacy protections for electronic health records. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to ensure protections for physicians & hospitals that contract with Medicaid managed care organizations
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2800. 2022-03-31
Description: By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 817) of Bruce E. Tarr for legislation to ensure protections for physicians & hospitals that contract with Medicaid managed care organizations. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: Health Care Affordability Board and Health Care Affordability Advisory Council established, health care market trend monitoring and recommendations required, health care spending growth target programs established, reports required, civil penalties provided, and fund transfers required.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-21
Last Action Date: Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Health Finance and Policy. 2022-03-31
Location: US-MN
Title: Concerning the charity care act.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-12-08
Last Action Date: Effective date 6/9/2022.. 2022-03-30
Location: US-WA
Title: Concerning the definition of established relationship for purposes of audio-only telemedicine.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-06
Last Action Date: Effective date 6/9/2022.. 2022-03-30
Location: US-WA
Title: MS Department of Health and MS Department of Revenue; provide certain exemptions for operation required under Medical Cannabis Act.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor. 2022-03-30
Description: An Act To Amend Section 25-9-107, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Personnel Employed By The Mississippi Department Of Health And/Or The Department Of Revenue Whose Employment Is Solely In Connection With Either Department'S Responsibilities In Implementing, Administering And Enforcing Provisions Of The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act Shall Be Exempt From Being Considered As State Service Employees For Purposes Of The State Personnel Board; To Set A Date Of Repeal For This Provision; To Amend Section 25-43-1.103, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That For The Purposes Of Implementing, Administering And/Or Enforcing The Provisions Of The Rules And Regulations Promulgated Pursuant To The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act, The Mississippi State Department Of Health And The Mississippi Department Of Revenue Shall Be Exempted From The Administrative Procedure Act From February 2, 2022, Through June 30, 2023; To Amend Section 25-53-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Through June 30, 2023, The Provisions Of The Mississippi Department Of Information Technology Services Bid And Contract Requirements Shall Not Apply To The Department Of Health And The Department Of Revenue For The Purposes Of Implementing, Administering And Enforcing The Provisions Of The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act; To Amend Section 25-53-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, As Amended By Senate Bill 2095, 2022 Regular Session, To Provide That Through June 30, 2023, The Provisions Of The Mississippi Department Of Information Technology Services Bid And Contract Requirements Shall Not Apply To The Department Of Health And The Department Of Revenue For The Purposes Of Implementing, Administering And Enforcing The Provisions Of The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act; To Amend Section 27-104-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Any Personal Or Professional Service Contract Entered Into By The Mississippi Department Of Health And/Or The Department Of Revenue Solely In Connection With Their Respective Responsibilities Under The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act From February 2, 2022, Through June 30, 2023, Shall Be Exempt From The Public Procurement Review Board; To Amend Section 31-7-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Certain Purchases Made By The Department Of Health And/Or The Department Of Revenue Solely For The Purpose Of Fulfilling Their Respective Responsibilities Under The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act To Be Exempt From Certain Bidding Requirements; To Amend Section 45-27-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Mississippi Department Of Public Safety Shall Retain Any Fingerprints Sent By The Department Of Health Pursuant To The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act; To Amend Section 45-27-12, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To This Act And The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act; To Authorize The Executive Directors Of The Department Of Health And The Department Of Revenue Negotiate A Limitation On The Liability Of Prospective Contractors To The State In The Negotiation And Execution Of All Information Technology Contracts As Necessary Under The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Workers' compensation; modifying various provision; effective date; emergency.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-07
Last Action Date: Remove as author Senator Howard; authored by Senator Daniels. 2022-03-30
Location: US-OK
Title: Insurance; enrollee's contribution toward out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing calculation requirements set.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-21
Last Action Date: Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Health Finance and Policy. 2022-03-30
Location: US-MN
Title: Telehealth
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-29
Last Action Date: Referred to Committee on Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs (House Journal-page 28). 2022-03-29
Description: A Bill To Amend The Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, To Enact The "South Carolina Telehealth And Telemedicine Modernization Act" By Adding Article 23 To Chapter 71, Title 38 So As To Define Terms, Establish Applicability, And To Prohibit Actions; To Amend Section 40-47-20, As Amended, Relating To Definitions, So As To Define Telehealth And To Make Conforming Changes; To Amend Section 40-47-37, Relating To The Practice Of Telemedicine, So As To Allow For The Prescribing Of Schedule Ii And Schedule Iii Medications Via Telehealth In Specific Circumstances; And To Amend Section 40-33-34, As Amended, Relating To The Performance Of Medical Acts, So As To Make Conforming Changes.
Location: US-SC
Title: Sexual assault kit; regulate processing of.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Conference. 2022-03-28
Description: An Act To Require Any Medical Facility Or Any Other Facility That Conducts A Medical Forensic Examination On An Alleged Rape Or Sexual Assault Victim And Prepares A Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit To Immediately Contact The Appropriate Law Enforcement Agency To Collect The Kit; To Require The Law Enforcement Agency To Immediately Collect And Store The Kit In Compliance With Certain Standards; To Require The Law Enforcement Agency To Send The Kit To The Mississippi Forensics Laboratory Within A Certain Number Of Days; To Require The Forensics Laboratory To Process The Kit And Enter Dna Information Into The Appropriate Federal, State And Local Databases; To Create The Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Accountability Task Force; To Provide The Purpose Of The Task Force; To Amend Section 99-37-25, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify That The Victims Compensation Fund Shall Pay All Medical Costs Associated With Forensic Medical Examination And Preparation Of Sexual Assault Evidence Kits; To Amend Section 99-49-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Procedures For Preservation Of Biological Evidence; To Amend Section 45-47-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Dna Samples Of Those Arrested For The Commission Or Attempted Commission Of Rape Or Sexual Assault To Be Entered Into Federal, State And Local Databases For Comparison To Other Samples; To Amend Section 73-15-20, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide A Limited Exemption For Nurse Practitioners With A Masters Degree Or Higher In Advanced Forensic Nursing; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Pharmacist authorization to prescribe, dispense and administer drugs to prevent the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus establishment; pharmacist authorization to order, conduct, and interpret laboratory tests necessary for therapy that uses drugs to prevent the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus establishment
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-14
Last Action Date: Author added Duckworth. 2022-03-28
Location: US-MN
Title: Postnatal health care coverage specified.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-10
Last Action Date: Author added Boldon. 2022-03-28
Location: US-MN
Title: AN ACT relating to employers.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-18
Last Action Date: recommitted to Judiciary (S). 2022-03-25
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to require employers that mandate employee immunization to allow exceptions based on religious belief or conscientious objection to immunizations; provide sample form for employee affirmation; amend KRS 344.040 to make it an unlawful practice for employers to require immunizations as a condition of employment from employees who hold sincere religious beliefs against or conscientiously object to immunization.
Location: US-KY
Title: "An Act repealing the certificate of need program for health care facilities; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date."
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: (H) COSPONSOR(S): GILLHAM. 2022-03-24
Location: US-AK
Title: Concerning statewide spending on primary care.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-12-22
Last Action Date: Effective date 6/9/2022.. 2022-03-24
Location: US-WA
Title: Medical Assistance Income Eligibility Requirements
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-18
Last Action Date: Governor Signed. 2022-03-24
Description: The act aligns the medicaid and children's basic health plan income eligibility requirements for pregnant women and children with federal law. Current law requires money in the healthcare affordability and sustainability fee cash fund (fund) to be used to expand eligibility for medicaid by increasing the income eligibility level for children and pregnant women under the children's basic health plan to up to 250% of the federal poverty line. The act increases the eligibility level to up to 260%. Under current law, if the money in the fund is insufficient to fully fund all the purposes of the fund, the medical services board (state board) may reduce the percentage of the federal poverty level. The act authorizes the state board to reduce the percentage of the federal poverty level to below 260%, but not below 250%. The act increases the medicaid income eligibility level for pregnant women from 185% of the federal poverty level to 195% of the federal poverty level, adjusted for family size. The act increases the income eligibility level under the children's basic health plan for children and pregnant women from 250% of the federal poverty level to 260% of the federal poverty level.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Location: US-CO
Title: An Act Relating To Health And Safety -- Treatment For Patients With Terminal Illness -- The Neil Fachon Terminally Ill Patients' Right To Try Act Of 2022 (Creates The "Neil Fachon Terminally Ill Patients' Right To Try Act Of 2022," Which Establishes The Conditions For The Use Of Experimental Treatments For Terminally Ill Patients.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-09
Last Action Date: Referred to Senate Health and Human Services. 2022-03-24
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions -- Pharmacies (Authorizes A Pharmacist To Prescribe And Dispense Hormonal Contraceptives, Provided That The Pharmacist Has Completed A Training Program Approved By The State Board Of Pharmacy.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-15
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2022-03-24
Location: US-RI
Title: Health care provider payment disclosure required, all-payer claims data provision changed, and health care payment transparency report required.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-24
Last Action Date: Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Health Finance and Policy. 2022-03-24
Location: US-MN
Title: Annual report of the Office of the Inspector General (under Section 86 of Chapter 227 of the Acts of 2020) submitting a report entitled: MassHealth and Health Safety Net: 2022 Annual Report
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-24
Last Action Date: Placed on file. 2022-03-24
Location: US-MA
Title: "An Act repealing the certificate of need program for health care facilities; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date."
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: (S) COSPONSOR(S): COSTELLO, HUGHES, REINBOLD, HOLLAND, SHOWER. 2022-03-23
Location: US-AK
Title: Regards the provision of telehealth services
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-16
Last Action Date: Effective. 2022-03-23
Description: To amend sections 3902.30, 4723.94, 4731.251, 4731.252, 4731.253, 4731.2910, 4731.30, 4732.33, and 5164.95; to amend, for the purpose of adopting new section numbers as indicated in parentheses, sections 4731.253 (4731.254) and 4731.2910 (4743.09); and to enact new section 4731.253 and sections 3319.2212, 3701.1310, 3721.60, 4715.438, 4725.35, 4729.285, 4730.60, 4731.741, 4734.60, 4753.20, 4755.90, 4757.50, 4758.80, 4759.20, 4761.30, 4778.30, 4783.20, 5119.368, and 5164.291 of the Revised Code, and to amend Section 3 of S.B. 9 of the 130th General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to establish and modify requirements regarding the provision of telehealth services, to establish a provider credentialing program within the Medicaid program, to revise the law governing the State Medical Board's One-Bite Program, and to extend the suspension of certain programs and requirements under the state's insurance laws until January 1, 2026.
Location: US-OH
Title: Insurance Amendments
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-18
Last Action Date: Governor Signed. 2022-03-23
Location: US-UT
Title: Diabetes Prevention Program
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-18
Last Action Date: Governor Signed. 2022-03-23
Location: US-UT
Title: Relates to permitting pregnant women to enroll in health insurance during a special enrollment period without penalty
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-07
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-03-23
Description: Relates to permitting pregnant women to enroll in the state health insurance exchange at any time without penalty.
Location: US-NY
Title: Transitional cost-sharing reduction, premium subsidy, small employers public option, and transitional health care credit established; MinnesotaCare eligibility expanded; premium scale modified; and recommendations required for alternative delivery and payment system.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-07
Last Action Date: Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Health Finance and Policy. 2022-03-21
Location: US-MN
Title: Suicide; facilities required to ensure patient access to counselors trained in patients who have attempted suicide, facilities prohibited from discharging or transferring patients to correctional facilities or detentions centers, and training and standard of police officers responding to suicidal individual implementation required.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-03
Last Action Date: Author added Olson, L.. 2022-03-21
Location: US-MN
Title: Data collected under the all-payer claims database and uses of this data modification
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-21
Last Action Date: Referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy. 2022-03-21
Location: US-MN
Title: Hospital pricing transparency required.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-21
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy. 2022-03-21
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act relative to medical civil rights
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2764. 2022-03-17
Description: By Mr. Brownsberger, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1544) of William N. Brownsberger for legislation relative to medical civil rights. Public Safety and Homeland Security.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to protect life-saving electronic health records from reckless corporate greed and corruption
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2772. 2022-03-17
Description: By Mr. Montigny, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1486) of Mark C. Montigny and Michael O. Moore for legislation to ensure timely electronic health record interoperability across health systems to protect patient lives. Public Health.
Location: US-MA
Title: Residential treatment admission requirements for children experiencing mental health crisis established.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-07
Last Action Date: Author added Moller. 2022-03-17
Location: US-MN
Title: opioid and methamphetamine data system and making an appropriation. (FE)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Published 3-17-2022. 2022-03-16
Description: An Act to create 20.505 (1) (bg) and subchapter III of chapter 153 [precedes 153.85] of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: Community Health, Department of; submit waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to authorize private institutions for mental disease to qualify for Medicaid reimbursement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-22
Last Action Date: Senate Read and Referred. 2022-03-16
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to direct the Department of Community Health to submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to authorize private institutions for mental disease to qualify for Medicaid reimbursement; to provide for implementation upon approval; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Healthcare provisions modification in consumer information, foster care, assets limitations, annuities, telehealth services, managed care and certain trusts
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-02
Last Action Date: Withdrawn and re-referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2022-03-16
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies (Limits The Copayment Or Coinsurance Requirement On Specialty Drugs To One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150) For A Thirty (30) Day Supply.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-02
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2022-03-16
Location: US-RI
Title: Medical Occupations - As introduced, establishes standardized pricing for delivery of medical records electronically or on digital media. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 56; Title 63, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-03
Last Action Date: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee. 2022-03-15
Location: US-TN
Title: Health Care - As introduced, establishes independent dispute resolution procedures for emergency services and balance bills. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-06
Last Action Date: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee. 2022-03-15
Location: US-TN
Title: coverage of individuals with preexisting conditions and benefit limits under health plans.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to amend 40.51 (8), 40.51 (8m), 66.0137 (4), 120.13 (2) (g) and 185.983 (1) (intro.); and to create 609.847 and 632.728 of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: opioid and methamphetamine data system and making an appropriation. (FE)
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-10
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to create 20.505 (1) (bg) and subchapter III of chapter 153 [precedes 153.85] of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: coverage of individuals with preexisting conditions and benefit limits under health plans.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-10
Last Action Date: Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to amend 40.51 (8), 40.51 (8m), 66.0137 (4), 120.13 (2) (g) and 185.983 (1) (intro.); and to create 609.847 and 632.728 of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: practice by health care providers from other states. (FE)
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to create 440.094 of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: prescription drug limits.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to amend 632.895 (16v) (a) (intro.) of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: liability insurance for physicians and nurse anesthetists.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to create 655.0025 of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: application of prescription drug payments to health insurance cost-sharing requirements.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-16
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to amend 40.51 (8), 40.51 (8m), 66.0137 (4), 120.13 (2) (g), 185.983 (1) (intro.) and 609.83; and to create 632.862 of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: application of prescription drug payments to health insurance cost-sharing requirements.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-23
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to amend 40.51 (8), 40.51 (8m), 66.0137 (4), 120.13 (2) (g), 185.983 (1) (intro.) and 609.83; and to create 632.862 of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: short-term health coverage duration.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-25
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to repeal 632.7495 (4) (a) to (d); to renumber and amend 632.7495 (4) (intro.); and to amend 632.7495 (5) of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: short-term health coverage duration.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-25
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to repeal 632.7495 (4) (a) to (d); to renumber and amend 632.7495 (4) (intro.); and to amend 632.7495 (5) of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: coverage of telehealth services.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-04-08
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to amend 40.51 (8), 40.51 (8m), 66.0137 (4), 120.13 (2) (g) and 185.983 (1) (intro.); and to create 49.45 (61) (f), 609.713 and 632.872 of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: coverage of telehealth services.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-04-21
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to amend 40.51 (8), 40.51 (8m), 66.0137 (4), 120.13 (2) (g) and 185.983 (1) (intro.); and to create 49.45 (61) (f), 609.713 and 632.872 of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: Medical Occupations - As introduced, establishes standardized pricing for delivery of medical records electronically or on digital media. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 56; Title 63, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-27
Last Action Date: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee. 2022-03-15
Location: US-TN
Title: An Act Relating To Health And Safety -- The Rhode Island Rare Disease Medication Accessibility, Affordability And Reinsurance Act (Establishes Within The Eohhs A Rare Disease Medication Reinsurance Program Fund In Consultation With An Advisory Council, To Assure Equitable Financing And Facilitate Access To Medication For Rare Diseases.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-08
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2022-03-15
Location: US-RI
Title: coverage of tests for sexually-transmitted diseases by health policies and plans.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-09
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to create 609.803 and 632.895 (13m) of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: insurance coverage and balance billing for certain health care services and granting rule-making authority.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-10
Last Action Date: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. 2022-03-15
Description: An Act to create 609.045 of the statutes;
Location: US-WI
Title: "An Act relating to health care insurers; relating to availability of payment information; relating to an incentive program for electing to receive health care services for less than the average price paid; relating to filing and reporting requirements; relating to municipal regulation of disclosure of health care services and price information; and providing for an effective date."
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-25
Last Action Date: (S) Minutes (SL&C). 2022-03-14
Location: US-AK
Title: Insurance Coverage for Telehealth Services
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-03
Last Action Date: Died in Finance & Facilities Subcommittee. 2022-03-14
Description: Prohibits Medicaid managed care plans from using providers who provide services exclusively through telehealth to achieve network adequacy; prohibits certain health insurer & HMOs from denying coverage for covered services provided through telehealth; prohibits health insurers & HMOs from excluding covered services provided through telehealth from coverage; provides reimbursement requirements & cost-sharing limitations for health insurers & HMOs relating to telehealth services; prohibits health insurers & HMOs from requiring insureds & subscribers to receive services through telehealth; authorizes health insurers & HMOs to conduct utilization reviews; authorizes health insurers & HMOs to limit telehealth services to certain providers; removes requirements for contracts between certain health insurers or HMOs & telehealth providers; requires certain small employer benefit plans to comply with certain requirements for reimbursement of telehealth services.
Location: US-FL
Title: Medical Education Reimbursement and Loan Repayment Program
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: Died in Education. 2022-03-14
Description: Revising the purpose of the program; expanding eligibility criteria for the program to include certain practice areas; requiring practitioners to provide specified proof of eligibility to receive payments under the program, etc.
Location: US-FL
Title: State Group Insurance Program
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: Died in Finance & Facilities Subcommittee. 2022-03-14
Description: Defines "reference-based pricing"; authorizes cost savings to be paid in cash to enrollee; requires certain contracted entities to use reference-based pricing program to set reimbursement rates.
Location: US-FL
Title: Ahcccs; naturopathic physicians; contractors
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-25
Last Action Date: Reported do pass out of Health & Human Services Committee. 2022-03-14
Location: US-AZ
Title: LIABILITY: Provides relative to public health emergencies. (gov sig)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-04
Last Action Date: Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.. 2022-03-14
Location: US-LA
Title: INSURANCE/HEALTH: Prohibits group health plan and life insurance policy issuers from denying coverage or offering incentives based upon vaccination status
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-03
Last Action Date: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance.. 2022-03-14
Location: US-LA
Title: PHARMACEUTICALS: Provides relative to the maximum cost of prescription insulin drugs. (8/1/22)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-03
Last Action Date: Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance.. 2022-03-14
Location: US-LA
Title: Health plan enrollee access to any rebates and discounts accrued directly or indirectly to health carriers requirement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-14
Last Action Date: Referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy. 2022-03-14
Location: US-MN
Title: Relating to the prescriptive authority of advance practice registered nurses
Current Status: Passed Senate
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: On 3rd reading with right to amend. 2022-03-12
Location: US-WV
Title: Revokes the extension of emergency powers granted to the governor related to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-17
Last Action Date: RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN. 2022-03-11
Description: Revokes the extension of emergency powers granted to the governor related to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Location: US-NY
Title: Insurance; prohibit insurers from unilaterally changing network participation contracts impacting coverage, access to, or costs of ancillary services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-04
Last Action Date: House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute. 2022-03-11
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to prohibit insurers from unilaterally changing network participation contracts impacting coverage, access to, or costs of ancillary services; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Improving worker safety and patient care in health care facilities by addressing staffing needs, overtime, meal and rest breaks, and enforcement.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-07
Last Action Date: By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading.. 2022-03-10
Location: US-WA
Title: Concerning continuity of coverage for prescription drugs prescribed for the treatment of behavioral health conditions.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading.. 2022-03-10
Location: US-WA
Title: Improving health outcomes for children on medicaid.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-19
Last Action Date: By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading.. 2022-03-10
Location: US-WA
Title: Relating To Healthcare Preceptors.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-26
Last Action Date: Referred to HHH, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 24. 2022-03-10
Description: Amends the definition of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors. Includes the Director of Health on the Preceptor Credit Assurance Committee. (SD2)
Location: US-HI
Title: Managed Care Plan Performance
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-12-15
Last Action Date: Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 855 (Ch. 2022-54) -SJ 751. 2022-03-09
Description: Requiring managed care plans to collect and report specified measures beginning with a certain data reporting period; requiring plans to stratify reported measures by specified categories beginning with a certain data reporting period; requiring a plan’s performance to be published on its website in a specified manner; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to use the measures to monitor plan performance, etc.
Location: US-FL
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Individual Health Insurance Coverage (Requires Individual Health Insurers, Large Group Health Insurers And Small Employer Health Insurers To Provide Coverage For Essential Health Benefits Listed In The Act.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-16
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2022-03-09
Location: US-RI
Title: Healthy Georgia Act; enact
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-08
Last Action Date: House Second Readers. 2022-03-09
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to public assistance, so as to establish the Healthy Georgia Program, providing comprehensive universal single payer healthcare coverage and a healthcare cost control system for the benefit of all Georgia residents; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Hospital Pricing Transparency Act
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-09
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2022-03-09
Location: US-MN
Title: Health plan companies required to establish an appeal process for providers to access if the provider's contract is terminated for cause, and health plan company prohibited from terminating a provider's contract without cause.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-04
Last Action Date: Second reading. 2022-03-07
Location: US-MN
Title: Data collected under the all-payer claims database and uses of this data modified, and study and report required on systems used by health plan companies and third-party administrators to pay health care providers.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-07
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy. 2022-03-07
Location: US-MN
Title: Concerning insulin affordability.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-12-16
Last Action Date: Effective date 6/9/2022*.. 2022-03-04
Location: US-WA
Title: Medical Billing Amendments
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-18
Last Action Date: House/ filed. 2022-03-04
Location: US-UT
Title: Child Health Care Coverage Amendments
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-27
Last Action Date: House/ filed. 2022-03-04
Location: US-UT
Title: Mental Health Treatment Amendments
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-10
Last Action Date: House/ filed. 2022-03-04
Location: US-UT
Title: Health insurance; creating Health Insurance Mandate Legislation Actuarial Analysis Act. Effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-07
Last Action Date: Title stricken. 2022-03-03
Location: US-OK
Title: Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission; subject to state procurement laws; provide
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-17
Last Action Date: House Committee Favorably Reported. 2022-03-03
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 9 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to access to medical cannabis, so as to provide that the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission is subject to state procurement laws; to revise the Medical Cannabis Commission Oversight Committee; to provide for information to be provided to such committee; to revise the number of Class 1 and Class 2 production licenses that can be issued by the commission; to revise dates for the retrospective study of minority participation; to provide that the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission is subject to open records laws; to provide for third-party consultants; to provide for the issuance of certain licenses by a date certain; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: AN ACT relating to payments from insureds.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-02
Last Action Date: to Banking & Insurance (S). 2022-03-03
Description: Create new sections of Subtitles 17A and 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to permit insureds to engage in self-pay negotiations with health care providers; amend KRS 304.17A-254, 304.17A-527, and 304.17C-060 to conform.
Location: US-KY
Title: Residential treatment admission requirements establishment for children experiencing a mental health crisis
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-02
Last Action Date: Author added Duckworth. 2022-03-03
Location: US-MN
Title: HEALTH- EASY ENROLLMENT ACT
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-01-19
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor - Chapter 33 - Mar. 2. 2022-03-02
Location: US-NM
Title: Modifies provisions relating to MO HealthNet managed care reimbursement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-05
Last Action Date: Second Read and Referred S Appropriations Committee. 2022-03-01
Location: US-MO
Title: Sellers of alternative nicotine products and package retailers; require to have a third-party age verification service.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-03-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 97-32-51, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Provisions Of Law That Regulate Alternative Nicotine Products; To Amend Section 97-32-21, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify The Authority Of The Attorney General To Perform Random Checks; To Amend Section 67-1-81, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Holders Of A Package Retail Permit To Have An Independent, Third-Party Age Verification Service Available On The Property Of The Location In Which Alcoholic Beverages Are Sold; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: AN ACT relating to health insurance.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-03-01
Last Action Date: to Committee on Committees (H). 2022-03-01
Description: Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to remove erroneous citation.
Location: US-KY
Title: Health policy commission establishment and appropriation
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: Chief author added Draheim. 2022-02-28
Location: US-MN
Title: Health information; directing State of Oklahoma to serve as or designate the state designated entity for health information exchange; requiring certain reporting to and utilization of state designated entity. Effective date. Emergency.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-07
Last Action Date: Emergency added. 2022-02-28
Location: US-OK
Title: Prohibits the preferred drug program, managed care programs and insurers from restricting or imposing delays in the distribution of antiretroviral prescription drugs prescribed to a person for HIV or AIDS
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-28
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-02-28
Description: Prohibits the preferred drug program, managed care programs and insurers from restricting or imposing delays in the distribution of antiretroviral prescription drugs prescribed to a person for the treatment or prevention of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Location: US-NY
Title: Medical assistance capitation payment withhold related to verification of coverage establishment
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-28
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2022-02-28
Location: US-MN
Title: Human rights; discrimination based on vaccination status prohibited.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-28
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law. 2022-02-28
Location: US-MN
Title: Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires certain insurers with policies or contracts that provide coverage for Veklury (remdesivir) to also provide coverage for monoclonal antibody infusions and budesonide treatment at a cost to the insured no greater than the cost of Veklury (remdesivir) to the insured on or after July 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-31
Last Action Date: Withdrawn.. 2022-02-25
Location: US-TN
Title: AN ACT relating to coverage for hepatitis C virus infection testing and treatment in pregnant women.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: floor amendment (1) filed. 2022-02-24
Description: Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for testing and treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in pregnant women; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer plans provided by state postsecondary institutions, Medicaid, KCHIP, and the state employee health plan to comply with the hepatitis C virus infection coverage requirement; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.
Location: US-KY
Title: Health: pharmaceuticals; right to try act; modify to include certain drugs and treatments during a COVID-19 pandemic emergency. Amends sec. 1 of 2014 PA 345 (MCL 333.26451).
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-12-14
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH POLICY AND HUMAN SERVICES. 2022-02-24
Location: US-MI
Title: Relates to applications for certain hospital projects
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2022-02-15
Last Action Date: SIGNED CHAP.137. 2022-02-24
Description: Relates to applications for construction, or substantial reduction of, a hospital or health related service; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to health equity assessments in the establishment or construction of a hospital.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relating To Healthcare Preceptors.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-26
Last Action Date: The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.. 2022-02-24
Description: Clarifies the limits of when a preceptor may be compensated for standard clinical services while providing a volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation. Amends the definition of "preceptor" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors. Includes the director of health on the preceptor credit assurance committee. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Setting forth standard of care requirements for telehealth practice
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-16
Last Action Date: Referred to Rules on 3rd reading. 2022-02-24
Location: US-WV
Title: MA Health Connector FY21 Marketplace Report
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-24
Last Action Date: Placed on file. 2022-02-24
Description: Report of the Massachusetts Health Connector (pursuant to Sections 7A(d) and 15 of Chapter 176Q of the General Laws) submitting its fiscal year 2021 report entitled "Activities and Accomplishments of the Massachusetts Marketplace"
Location: US-MA
Title: Public Health, Dept. of; require persons to submit to vaccinations or other measures to prevent contagious or infectious diseases; repeal authority
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-22
Last Action Date: House Second Readers. 2022-02-24
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to control of hazardous conditions, preventable diseases, and metabolic disorders, so as to repeal the authority of the Department of Public Health and all county boards of health to require persons to submit to vaccinations against or other measures to prevent contagious or infectious diseases; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Appropriation; Health Department for MAGnet Community Health Disparity Program.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-23
Description: An Act Making An Appropriation To The State Department Of Health For The Purpose Of Providing Funds To The Magnet Community Health Disparity Program To Be Used To Address The Disproportionate Impact On The Minority Community Of Coronavirus Infections And Deaths From Covid-19, For The Fiscal Year 2023.
Location: US-MS
Title: Appropriation; Department of Health for funding physician residency training programs.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-23
Description: An Act Making An Appropriation To The State Department Of Health For The Purpose Of Funding Physician Residency Training Programs Created Through The Office Of Mississippi Physician Workforce For The Fiscal Year 2023.
Location: US-MS
Title: Insulin
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-04-22
Last Action Date: Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Henegan. 2022-02-22
Description: A Bill To Amend The Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, By Adding Section 38-71-48 So As To Define "Prescription Insulin Drug" And Require All Individual And Group Health Insurance, Health Maintenance Organizations, And The State Health Plan To Cap An Insured'S Monthly Cost-Sharing Obligation For Covered Prescription Insulin Drugs.
Location: US-SC
Title: Modifies provisions relating to the protection of vulnerable persons
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-05
Last Action Date: HCS Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 8 NOES: 5 PRESENT: 0. 2022-02-22
Location: US-MO
Title: Addressing affordability through health care provider contracting.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: Returned to Rules Committee for second reading.. 2022-02-22
Location: US-WA
Title: Concerning network access.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Returned to Rules Committee for second reading.. 2022-02-22
Location: US-WA
Title: Allow medical practice on the basis of conscience.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-27
Last Action Date: Health and Human Services Deferred to the 41st legislative day, Passed, YEAS 7 NAYS 4.. 2022-02-22
Location: US-SD
Title: Creating Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-21
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-02-21
Location: US-WV
Title: Relating To Ignition Interlock Devices.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-21
Last Action Date: The committee on TRS deferred the measure.. 2022-02-17
Description: Requires consecutive terms of imprisonment for anyone convicted as a repeat or habitual offender if arising from same conduct as conviction for operating a vehicle without an ignition interlock device. Requires any person operating a vehicle with an ignition interlock to have government issued identification in their immediate possession. Extends the lookback period under provisions relating to ignition interlock requirements from five to ten years. Expands the offense of circumventing or tampering with an ignition interlock to include obscuring the camera lens or not providing a picture of the driver.
Location: US-HI
Title: An Act relative to ambulance service reimbursement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2701. 2022-02-17
Description: By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 731) of Walter F. Timilty, Ryan C. Fattman, Brian W. Murray, Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to ambulance service reimbursement. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: Health Care Freedom of Conscience Act
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-11
Last Action Date: Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.. 2022-02-17
Description: Authorizing health care providers and health care practitioners to decline to participate in a health care service that violates their conscience; authorizing health care payors to decline to pay for health care services or health care products that violate their conscience; establishing certain civil, criminal, and administrative immunity; etc.
Location: US-MD
Title: Suicide Treatment Improvement Act
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-11
Last Action Date: Hearing 3/07 at 2:00 p.m.. 2022-02-17
Description: Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the treatment of and response efforts to individuals who are suicidal or who have attempted suicide, including provisions related to the provision of and access to counseling, the discharge and transfer of patients, cost-sharing requirements for insurance, and standards for police response.
Location: US-MD
Title: MinnesotaCare and medical assistance enrollee cost-sharing elimination; State Employee Group Insurance Program plans modification
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-17
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2022-02-17
Location: US-MN
Title: Fourth-degree assault crime related to health care professionals expansion; education and awareness initiatives addressing health care professional burnout and mental health issues authorization
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-17
Last Action Date: Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Finance and Policy. 2022-02-17
Location: US-MN
Title: Prescription drugs and related medical supplies prescribed to treat a chronic disease cost-sharing limited.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-17
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce Finance and Policy. 2022-02-17
Location: US-MN
Title: Medical assistance capitation payment withhold related to verification of coverage established.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-17
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy. 2022-02-17
Location: US-MN
Title: AN ACT relating to emergency medical services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-16
Last Action Date: to Committee on Committees (H). 2022-02-16
Description: Amend sections of KRS Chapter 311A to update definitions; create the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services as an independent agency of state government; change membership of the board; delete the licensure of ambulances and ambulance services from the board duties; update language and delete certificate of need language; correct references to training institutions; make conforming changes; create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to license and regulate ambulances and ambulance services; require duties of the cabinet; require ambulance providers holding a license to operate a 911 ambulance service to continue in the same service or response areas under the same license and require all other ambulance services to be licensed by the cabinet beginning December 31, 2022; repeal, reenact and amend sections of KRS Chapter 311A as sections of KRS Chapter 216B to reflect change in licensing of ambulance providers and data collection to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 216B.020 and 216B.095 to remove ambulance services from the certificate of need requirement; amend KRS 42.738 to add member to the Kentucky Wireless Interoperability Executive Committee; amend KRS 65.7623 to add member of the cabinet to the Kentucky 911 Services Board; amend various other sections to conform; create new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require the transfer of all board employees, funds, and equipment of the board from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; make provisions for employee retirement transfer; amend KRS 61.510 to conform; amend KRS 205.590 to establish a new technical advisory committee on emergency medical services consisting of members representing the air medical industry, the Kentucky Board of Emergency Services, the emergency medical services billing industry, and ground ambulance providers; amend KRS 205.590 to create a Technical Advisory Committee on Emergency Medical Services in the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance; repeal KRS 211.9523 and 311A.080; add noncodified sections to set board appointments and term limits; retain administrative regulations in effect related to ambulance providers; require the cabinet to review administrative regulations related to ambulance providers.
Location: US-KY
Title: Health insurance; short-term limited-duration medical plans.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: House: Left in Commerce and Energy. 2022-02-15
Description: Health insurance; short-term limited-duration medical plans. Repeals prohibitions on the duration, renewal and extension, and availability of short-term limited-duration medical plans.
Location: US-VA
Title: Group health benefit plans; sponsoring associations, formation of benefits consortium.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: House: Left in Commerce and Energy. 2022-02-15
Description: Group health benefit plans; sponsoring associations; formation of benefits consortium. Provides that sponsoring associations, including self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangements, may provide health benefit plans for small employers in the form of a trust benefit consortium, subject to certain requirements. The bill includes conditions for qualifying as a sponsoring association, requirements for the formation of a trust benefits consortium, and provisions to establish a board of trustees. Under the bill, such trust benefits consortium is subject to the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and U.S. Department of Labor regulations and such trust shall not include certain words or terms in its name that are uniquely descriptive of insurance companies or business, and a statement to this effect is required to be included on the first page of the health benefit plan documents. A benefits consortium or sponsoring association is exempt from the requirements of the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association and exempt from annual license taxes under the bill.
Location: US-VA
Title: Freestanding emergency departments; Bd. of Health to promulgate regulations related to departments.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: House: Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions. 2022-02-15
Description: Freestanding emergency departments. Requires the Board of Health to promulgate regulations related to freestanding emergency departments, defined in the bill as facilities located in the Commonwealth that (i) provide emergency services, (ii) are owned and operated by a licensed hospital and operate under the hospital's license, and (iii) are located on separate premises from the primary campus of the hospital. The bill also requires freestanding emergency departments to make certain disclosures to patients, in advertisements, and on any online platforms associated with such emergency department.
Location: US-VA
Title: Children; comprehensive health care coverage program.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: House: Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions. 2022-02-15
Description: Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are under 19 years of age, (ii) are not covered under a group health plan or health insurance coverage, and (iii) but for their immigration status would be eligible for medical assistance services through the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance services established pursuant to Title XIX or XXI of the Social Security Act. The bill also requires the Department to ensure that all program information is made available in a manner that is accessible to individuals with limited English proficiency through the provision of language access services, including oral interpretation and written translations, free of charge, and to ensure that information obtained by the program remains confidential and is not disclosed for any purpose not related to the administration of the program or any purpose related to civil immigration enforcement unless the subject of the information consents to such disclosure or the requesting agency presents a valid judicial order, subpoena, or warrant.
Location: US-VA
Title: Health Care Commission established.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-15
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy. 2022-02-15
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act relative to the immunization registry
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2692. 2022-02-14
Description: By Mr. Cyr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1398) of Julian Cyr for legislation relative to the immunization registry. Public Health.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act limiting out of pocket health expenses
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2693. 2022-02-14
Description: By Mr. Feeney, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 666) of Paul R. Feeney, Michael J. Barrett, Maria Duaime Robinson and Patrick M. O'Connor for legislation to limit out of pocket health expenses. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relating to patient cost, benefit and coverage information, choice, and price transparency
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2693. 2022-02-14
Description: By Mr. Cyr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 650) of Julian Cyr for legislation relative to patient cost, benefit and coverage information, choice, and price transparency. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act relative to uncollected co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2693. 2022-02-14
Description: By Mr. Finegold, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 670) of Barry R. Finegold for legislation to require certain healthcare carriers to share accountability with providers for uncollectible patient obligations after insurance. Financial Services.
Location: US-MA
Title: Benefit and cost analysis of universal health reform proposal to assist the legislature in comparing it to the current health care financing system; appropriating money
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-11
Last Action Date: Authors added McEwen; Fateh. 2022-02-14
Location: US-MN
Title: The Sexual Assault Survivors' DNA Bill of Rights; create.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died On Calendar. 2022-02-14
Description: An Act To Create The "Sexual Assault Survivors' Dna Bill Of Rights"; To Provide Definitions For Such Act; To Regulate The Preparation And Production Of Sexual Assault Evidence; To Describe The Rights Of Sexual Assault Survivors; To Provide That Such Rights Are In Addition To Any Of The Rights Provided In The "Mississippi Crime Survivors' Bill Of Rights"; To Amend Section 99-37-25, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For Processing Of Rape Kits For Purposes Of Amendment; To Bring Forward Section 99-41-29, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For The Crime Victims' Compensation Fund, For Purposes Of Amendment; To Bring Forward Section 99-47-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For Victim Confidentiality, For Purposes Of Amendment; To Amend Section 99-49-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For Preservation Of Certain Biological Evidence, For Purposes Of Amendment; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies (Limits An Individual’S Co-Pay For Any Diagnostic Imaging Tests, Inclusive Of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Tests (Mris), Computed Tomography Scans (Ct), Ultrasound Or X-Ray, To Forty Dollars ($40).)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-11
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2022-02-14
Location: US-RI
Title: Health care professionals fourth-degree assault crime expanded, health care professional burnout and mental health issues education awareness required, and money appropriated.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-14
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Finance and Policy. 2022-02-14
Location: US-MN
Title: Enrollee cost-sharing under medical assistance and MinnesotaCare eliminated; and individual, small group, and State Employee Group Insurance Program plan prohibited from including cost-sharing.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-14
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy. 2022-02-14
Location: US-MN
Title: Comprehensive health care coverage program; DMAS to establish.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: House: Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N). 2022-02-10
Description: Comprehensive health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are younger than 19 years of age, aged 65 years or older, or pregnant; (ii) are not covered under a group health plan or health insurance coverage; and (iii) but for their immigration status, would be eligible for medical assistance services through the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance services established pursuant to Title XIX and Title XXI of the federal Social Security Act. The bill also requires the Department to ensure that all program information is made available in a manner that is accessible to individuals with limited English proficiency through the provision of language access services, including oral interpretation and written translations, free of charge, and to ensure that information obtained by the program established by this section remains confidential and is not disclosed for any purpose not related to the administration of the program.
Location: US-VA
Title: Medical Practice Act; revise various provisions of.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died On Calendar. 2022-02-10
Description: An Act Relating To The Practice Of Medicine; To Amend Section 73-25-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise Certain Definitions Under The Medical Practice Act; To Amend Sections 73-25-3 And 73-25-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify Certain Procedures To Obtain A License To Practice Medicine; To Amend Section 73-25-14, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide For Electronic Notice Of License Renewal; To Remove The License Renewal Fee Exemption For Physicians Over The Age Of 70; To Provide Procedures For Physicians To Request Retired Status; To Amend Section 73-25-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify Procedures For The Issuance Of A Temporary License To Practice Medicine; To Amend Section 73-25-18, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify Certain Provisions Regarding A Special Volunteer Medical License; To Amend Sections 73-25-19, 73-25-21 And 73-25-23, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify Procedures For Nonresident Physicians And Issuance Of A License By Reciprocity; To Amend Sections 73-25-27, 73-25-28, 73-25-29, 73-25-30 And 73-25-32, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise Certain Procedures For Disciplinary Action Against Licenses, The Issuance Of Subpoenas By The Board Of Medical Licensure, The Grounds For Disciplinary Action, The Options Available To The Board Following Disciplinary Hearings Against Licensees, And Petitions For Reinstatement Of Licenses; To Amend Section 73-25-33, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Definition Of The Practice Of Medicine And Clarify The Action Of Unlawful Practice Of Medicine And The Authority Of The Board To Seek Injunctive Relief And Impose Penalties; To Amend Section 73-25-34, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Delete The Exception From Having A Mississippi License To Practice Medicine For Certain Physicians Outside Of The State Who Render Services By Telemedicine; To Amend Sections 73-25-51, 73-25-53, 73-25-55, 73-25-57, 73-25-59, 73-25-61, 73-25-63 And 73-25-65, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise Certain Procedures Under The Disabled Physician Law To Apply To All Professional Licensees Under The Board; To Amend Section 73-25-87, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise Disciplinary Actions Which The Board Is Authorized To Take; To Amend Section 73-25-89, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Change The Time For A Hearing To Be Held When A Temporary Action Is Taken Without A Hearing; To Repeal Section 73-25-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides When And Where Licensure Examinations Are Conducted, Section 73-25-9, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Prescribes Specific Fees For Licensure Examination, Section 73-25-15, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For Lost Licenses, Section 73-25-25, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Authorizes The Issuance Of A License For A Person Desiring To Practice Osteopathic Medicine In This State, Section 73-25-39, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For The Acquisition Of Books And Stationery By The Board, And Section 73-25-81, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Defines The Membership Of The Board Responsible For Licensure And Discipline Of Physicians In This State; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: State Board of Medical Licensure; revise composition of to include consumer members.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died On Calendar. 2022-02-10
Description: An Act To Amend Sections 73-43-1, 73-43-3, 73-43-5, 73-43-7, 73-43-11 And 73-43-14, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Composition Of The State Board Of Medical Licensure To Include Consumer Members; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: "Mississippi Frontline Nurses and Health Care Workers Retention Grant Program"; establish in the Mississippi Department of Health.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-10
Description: An Act To Create The "Mississippi Frontline Nurses And Health Care Workers Retention Act"; To Provide The Legislative Findings And Determinations Regarding The Importance And Urgency Of The Act; To Establish The "Mississippi Frontline Nurses And Health Care Workers Retention Grant Program" In The Mississippi Department Of Health And Prescribe Its Components; To Provide That A Portion Of The Funds Shall Be Expended By The Department For Providing Funds To Mississippi Licensed Hospitals To Provide Premium Pay To Their Mississippi Frontline Nurses And Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers Providing Bedside Care Who Are Primarily Devoted To Mitigating Or Responding To The Current Covid-19 Public Health Emergency; To Provide That A Portion Of The Funds Shall Be Expended By The Department For Providing Funds To Mississippi Licensed Long-Term Care Facilities To Provide Premium Pay To Their Mississippi Frontline Nurses And Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers Providing Bedside Care Who Are Primarily Devoted To Mitigating Or Responding To The Current Covid-19 Public Health Emergency; To Provide That A Portion Of The Funds Shall Be Expended By The Department For Providing Funds To Mississippi Licensed Ambulance Services To Provide Premium Pay To Their Mississippi Frontline Nurses And Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers Providing Bedside Care Who Are Primarily Devoted To Mitigating Or Responding To The Current Covid-19 Public Health Emergency; To Provide That A Portion Of The Funds Shall Be Expended By The State Department Of Health For Providing Funds To Eligible Entities Under This Act To Provide Premium Pay To Their Mississippi Frontline Nurses And Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers Who Are Primarily Devoted To Mitigating Or Responding To The Current Covid-19 Public Health Emergency To Be Distributed In The Manner That The Department Determines Is The Most Equitable And Efficient To Supplement The Funds Otherwise Provided And To Effectuate The Purposes Of This Act; To Provide That Mississippi Frontline Nurses And Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers That Qualify For Premium Pay Under This Section Shall Receive Premium Pay Not To Exceed A Certain Amount Within 60 Days Of The Effective Date Of This Act In Recognition Of The Recipient'S Current And Future Work Primarily Devoted To Mitigating Or Responding To The Current Covid-19 Public Health Emergency And Subject To The Recipient'S Written Agreement With The Department To Continue Employment With The Recipient'S Primary Current Employer For Five Months Following The Receipt Of Such Premium Pay; To Further Provide That The Written Agreement Shall Be Developed By The Department And Include A Provision That The Mississippi Frontline Nurse Or Licensed/Certified Health Care Worker May Be Required To Repay To The State Of Mississippi The Amount Of Their Premium Pay Funds If The Terms Of The Agreement Are Not Met; To Provide Certain Reporting And Approval Requirements Under This Act; To Provide That None Of The Funds Provided Under This Section May Be Used To Provide Premium Pay To Any Frontline Nurses Or Licensed/Certified Health Care Workers Who Are Working Under A Contract With A Staffing Agency To Provide Services In The State Of Mississippi For A Limited Duration Of Less Than One Year, Such As Travel Nurses, As Determined By The Department; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Prescriptions; off-label use.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-21
Last Action Date: Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N). 2022-02-10
Description: Prescriptions; off-label use. Provides that a licensed health care provider with prescriptive authority may prescribe, administer, or dispense a drug that has been approved for a specific use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an off-label use when the health care provider determines, in his professional judgment, that such off-label use is appropriate for the care and treatment of the patient and prohibits a pharmacist from refusing to dispense a drug for off-label use if a valid prescription is presented.
Location: US-VA
Title: Medicaid Continuity of Coverage Program; establish
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-08
Last Action Date: House Second Readers. 2022-02-10
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to public assistance, so as to establish the Medicaid Continuity of Coverage Program; to provide for the transition of continuous enrollment Medicaid beneficiaries into traditional Medicaid; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Parents Bill of Rights
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-10
Last Action Date: Referred to Human Services Reform Finance and Policy. 2022-02-10
Location: US-MN
Title: HPC Children with Medical Complexity Report
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-10
Last Action Date: Placed on file. 2022-02-10
Description: Report of the Health Policy Commission (pursuant to Section 7(c) of Chapter 124 of the Acts of 2019) submitting its report on children with medical complexity in the Commonwealth
Location: US-MA
Title: Requiring PEIA reimbursement rates be no less than Medicare
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-09
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-02-09
Location: US-WV
Title: Requires a utilization review agent to follow certain rules when establishing a step therapy protocol
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-09
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-02-09
Description: Requires a utilization review agent to follow certain rules when establishing a step therapy protocol; requires that the protocol accepts any attestation submitted by the insured's health care professional stating that a required drug has failed as prima facie evidence that the required drug has failed.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to required coursework and training in reporting cases of suspected child abuse
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-19
Last Action Date: ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN. 2022-02-08
Description: Requires certain persons and officials required to report suspected child abuse and maltreatment to complete ongoing training.
Location: US-NY
Title: State insurance; increasing allowance for opting out of certain insurance plans. Effective date. Emergency.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-07
Last Action Date: Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee. 2022-02-08
Location: US-OK
Title: Surprise billing; requiring reimbursement at certain rate; establishing requirements and provisions for billing disputes. Effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-07
Last Action Date: Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance. 2022-02-08
Location: US-OK
Title: Health Insurance – Qualified Resident State Subsidy Program (Access to Care Act)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-02-07
Last Action Date: Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.. 2022-02-08
Description: Altering the purpose of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Fund to include the provision of funding for the establishment and operation of the Qualified Resident State Subsidy Program; requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to establish and implement the Program to provide State premium assistance and cost-sharing reductions to qualified residents; and providing that the implementation of the Program is contingent on approval of a certain waiver application.
Location: US-MD
Title: Health care guaranteed to be available and affordable for every Minnesotan; Minnesota Health Plan, Minnesota Health Board, Minnesota Health Fund, Office of Health Quality and Planning, ombudsman for patient advocacy, and auditor general for the Minnesota Health Plan established; a 1332 waiver requested; rulemaking authorized; and money appropriated.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-01
Last Action Date: Author added Bahner. 2022-02-07
Location: US-MN
Title: Health insurance transparency.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: First reading: referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance. 2022-02-07
Description: Specifies that the compliance of a practitioner and a provider facility with federal law meets the good faith estimate requirements concerning health service costs. Allows the commissioner of the department of insurance to issue an order to discontinue a violation of a law (current law specifies orders or rules). Requires a domestic stock insurer to file specified information with the department of insurance. Prohibits a health plan from requiring a health care provider to submit a prior authorization request to a third party and requires the health plan to transmit the request to the third party through secure electronic transmission. Amends the deadline by which a health plan must respond to a nonurgent care prior authorization request. Requires a health plan to offer a health care provider that submitted a prior authorization and received an adverse determination the option to request a peer to peer review by a clinical peer concerning the adverse determination. Requires a health plan to post notice of a technical issue with its claims submission system on the health plan's Internet web site. Requires a health plan to post on its Internet web site not later than February 1 of each year: (1) the 30 most frequently submitted CPT codes in the previous calendar year; and (2) the percentage of the 30 most frequently submitted CPT codes that were approved in the previous calendar year. Establishes an approval process for a health plan's proposed premium rate increase of 5% or greater as compared to the previous calendar year. Prohibits an insurer and a health maintenance organization from altering a CPT code for a claim unless the medical record of the claim has been reviewed by an employee who is a licensed physician. Requires an insurer and a health maintenance organization to provide a contracted provider with a current reimbursement rate schedule: (1) every two years; and (2) when three or more CPT code rates change in a 12 month period. Urges the study by an interim committee of prior authorization exemptions for certain health care providers.
Location: US-IN
Title: Integrating behavioral health in primary care through the use of health navigators and a primary care collaborative.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-18
Last Action Date: Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:00 AM.. 2022-02-07
Location: US-WA
Title: MED STUDENTS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-26
Last Action Date: Action Postponed Indefinitely. 2022-02-03
Location: US-NM
Title: Driving under the influence, pretrial diversion programs, ignition interlock devices required, provision repealing in July 2023 deleted
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-18
Last Action Date: Pending third reading on day 6 Favorable from Public Safety and Homeland Security. 2022-02-02
Location: US-AL
Title: A bill for an act relating to continuity of care and nonmedical switching by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 372; See HF 2199.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-23
Last Action Date: Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2199.. 2022-02-01
Location: US-IA
Title: Anatomical gifts; prohibit discrimination against recipient based on disability.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-05
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Enact Cole'S Law To Prohibit Discrimination Against Recipients Of An Anatomical Gift Or Organ Transplant Based On Disability; To Define Certain Terms For The Act; To Provide Requirements For Covered Entities; To Provide For The Relief Provided By The Act; To Provide Certain Requirements Of Insurers; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Health insurance carriers; require to cap patient cost for prescriptions for insulin drugs.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-06
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Create New Section 83-9-46.1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Health Insurance Carriers That Provide Coverage For Prescription Insulin Drugs To Cap The Total Amount That A Covered Person Is Required To Pay For A Covered Prescription Insulin Drug At An Amount Not To Exceed $100.00 Per Thirty-Day Supply Of Insulin, Regardless Of The Amount Or Type Of Insulin Needed To Fill The Covered Person'S Prescription; To Direct The Attorney General To Investigate Pricing Of Prescription Insulin Drugs That Are Made Available To Mississippi Consumers To Ensure Adequate Consumer Protections In Pricing Of Prescription Insulin Drugs And Whether Additional Consumer Protections Are Needed; To Provide That The Attorney General Shall Issue And Make Available To The Public, The Governor And The Legislature A Report Detailing His Or Her Findings From The Investigation Conducted Under This Act; To Bring Forward Section 25-15-9, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For The State And School Employees Health Insurance Plan, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; To Bring Forward Section 83-9-46, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides That Health Insurance Policies And Plans Must Offer Coverage For Diabetes Treatments, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: DUI law; revise fourth offense of and require all expunctions to be confidentially registered.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 63-11-30, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify The Status Of Out-Of-State Dui Convictions Used For Purposes Of Enhancement Of Penalty For Fourth And Subsequent Dui Violations; To Clarify That Expunctions Of Violations Of This Section, Including Nonadjudications Granted By An Intervention Court, Must Be Recorded Within The Confidential Registry Of All Expunctions; To Amend Section 9-23-23, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Orders Of Nonadjudication And Expunction Must Be Recorded Within The Confidential Registry Of All Expunctions Created In Section 63-11-30; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Alcoholic and tobacco; require scanning software to combat underage drinking and smoking.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 97-32-51, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Provisions Of Law That Regulate Alternative Nicotine Products; To Amend Section 97-32-21, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify The Authority Of The Attorney General To Perform Random Checks; To Amend Section 67-1-81, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Holders Of A Package Retail Permit To Have An Independent, Third-Party Age Verification Service Available On The Property Of The Location In Which Alcoholic Beverages Are Sold; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Division of Medicaid; apply for necessary waivers to eliminate waiting period services.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 43-13-121, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Direct The Division Of Medicaid To Apply For Necessary Waivers And Expend Funds Appropriated As Necessary To Provide Home- And Community-Based Services To The Aged/Disabled, Physically Disabled And Recipients With Traumatic Brain Injury/Spinal Cord Injury To Eliminate Any Waiting Period For Services; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Health insurance; authorize exemption from prior authorization requirements for physicians and other providers.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Create New Sections 83-41-501 Through 83-41-517, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize An Exemption From Prior Authorization Requirements By Health Insurers For Physicians And Other Providers Who Provide Certain Health Care Services; To Provide That A Health Insurer That Uses A Prior Authorization Process For Health Care Services May Not Require A Physician Or Other Provider To Obtain Prior Authorization For A Particular Health Care Service If, In The Most Recent Six-Month Evaluation Period, The Health Insurer Has Approved Or Would Have Approved Not Less Than 90 Percent Of The Prior Authorization Requests Submitted For The Particular Health Care Service; To Authorize A Health Insurer To Rescind An Exemption From Prior Authorization Requirements Only If The Health Insurer Makes A Determination, On The Basis Of A Retrospective Review Of A Random Sample Of Claims Submitted By The Physician Or Other Provider During The Most Recent Evaluation Period, That Less Than 90 Percent Of The Claims For The Particular Health Care Service Met The Medical Necessity Criteria That Would Have Been Used By The Health Insurer When Conducting Prior Authorization Review For The Particular Health Care Service During The Relevant Evaluation Period; To Provide That Such A Determination Must Be Made By An Individual Licensed To Practice Medicine In This State; To Provide That A Physician Or Other Provider Has A Right To A Review Of An Adverse Determination Regarding A Denial Or Rescission Of A Prior Authorization Exemption And That The Review Must Be Conducted By An Accredited Independent Review Organization; To Provide That A Health Insurer Shall Pay For Any Appeal Or Independent Review Of An Adverse Determination Regarding A Prior Authorization Exemption Requested By A Physician Or Other Provider; To Provide That A Health Insurer Is Bound By An Appeal Or Independent Review Determination That Does Not Affirm The Determination Made By The Health Insurer To Rescind Or Deny A Prior Authorization Exemption; To Provide That A Health Insurer Shall Not Deny Or Reduce Payment To A Physician Or Other Provider For A Health Care Service For Which The Physician Or Other Provider Has Qualified For An Exemption From Prior Authorization Requirements Based On Medical Necessity Or Appropriateness Of Care, Unless The Physician Or Other Provider Knowingly And Materially Misrepresented The Health Care Service In A Request For Payment Submitted To The Health Insurer With The Specific Intent To Deceive And Obtain An Unlawful Payment From The Health Insurer, Or Failed To Substantially Perform The Health Care Service; To Amend Sections 41-83-9, 41-83-31, 73-23-35, 83-9-6.3, 83-9-32, 83-9-353, 83-41-409 And 83-51-15, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Provisions Of This Act; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Health insurance; provide that mental illness coverage includes substance abuse.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 83-9-37, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify Certain Terminology For Health Insurance Policy Coverage For Mental Illness; To Amend Section 83-9-39, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Add Health Insurance Issuer Reporting Requirements About Mental Illness Coverage Parity; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Healthcare Contracting Simplification Act; create.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Create New Sections 83-9-401 Through 83-9-419, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Enact The Healthcare Contracting Simplification Act; To Provide Definitions For The Act; To Prohibit The All-Products Clause; To Prohibit The Most Favored Nation Clause; To Provide Further Requirements Of Healthcare Contracts; To Provide That The Mississippi Insurance Department Shall Enforce This Act; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Health insurers; authorize exemption from prior authorization requirements of for health care providers if certain criteria are met.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Create New Sections 83-41-501 Through 83-41-517, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize An Exemption From Prior Authorization Requirements By Health Insurers For Physicians And Other Providers Who Provide Certain Health Care Services; To Provide That A Health Insurer That Uses A Prior Authorization Process For Health Care Services May Not Require A Physician Or Other Provider To Obtain Prior Authorization For A Particular Health Care Service If, In The Most Recent Six-Month Evaluation Period, The Health Insurer Has Approved Or Would Have Approved Not Less Than 90 Percent Of The Prior Authorization Requests Submitted For The Particular Health Care Service; To Authorize A Health Insurer To Rescind An Exemption From Prior Authorization Requirements Only If The Health Insurer Makes A Determination, On The Basis Of A Retrospective Review Of A Random Sample Of Claims Submitted By The Physician Or Other Provider During The Most Recent Evaluation Period, That Less Than 90 Percent Of The Claims For The Particular Health Care Service Met The Medical Necessity Criteria That Would Have Been Used By The Health Insurer When Conducting Prior Authorization Review For The Particular Health Care Service During The Relevant Evaluation Period; To Provide That Such A Determination Must Be Made By An Individual Licensed To Practice Medicine In This State; To Provide That A Physician Or Other Provider Has A Right To A Review Of An Adverse Determination Regarding A Denial Or Rescission Of A Prior Authorization Exemption And That The Review Must Be Conducted By An Accredited Independent Review Organization; To Provide That A Health Insurer Shall Pay For Any Appeal Or Independent Review Of An Adverse Determination Regarding A Prior Authorization Exemption Requested By A Physician Or Other Provider; To Provide That A Health Insurer Is Bound By An Appeal Or Independent Review Determination That Does Not Affirm The Determination Made By The Health Insurer To Rescind Or Deny A Prior Authorization Exemption; To Provide That A Health Insurer Shall Not Deny Or Reduce Payment To A Physician Or Other Provider For A Health Care Service For Which The Physician Or Other Provider Has Qualified For An Exemption From Prior Authorization Requirements Based On Medical Necessity Or Appropriateness Of Care, Unless The Physician Or Other Provider Knowingly And Materially Misrepresented The Health Care Service In A Request For Payment Submitted To The Health Insurer With The Specific Intent To Deceive And Obtain An Unlawful Payment From The Health Insurer, Or Failed To Substantially Perform The Health Care Service; To Amend Sections 41-83-9, 41-83-31, 73-23-35, 83-9-6.3, 83-9-32, 83-9-353, 83-41-409 And 83-51-15, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Provisions Of This Act; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Medical records; set maximum amounts of fees that may be charged for providing in electronic format.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 11-1-52, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Health Care Providers And Facilities Shall Comply With The Federal Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (Hipaa) In Charging Fees For Providing An Individual'S Protected Health Information To The Individual; To Provide That Health Care Providers And Facilities Shall Be Subject To The Fee Schedule In This Section In Charging Fees For Photocopying And Providing An Individual'S Protected Health Information To A Third Party; To Set The Maximum Amounts Of Fees That Health Care Providers And Facilities May Charge For Sending An Individual'S Protected Health Information Electronically To Or Reproducing The Information In Electronic Format For A Third Party; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Ignition-interlock device; bring forward provision related to.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Bring Forward Section 63-11-31, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment Related To The Determination Of Indigency; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Acute Care Nurse Practitioners; establish specific practice authority.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 73-15-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Definition Of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse To Include Acute Care Nurse Practitioners; To Amend Section 73-15-20, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Include Acute Care Nurse Practitioners As Advanced Practice Registered Nurses; To Provide That Acute Care Nurse Practitioners May Perform Aesthetic Services, Including, But Not Limited To, Dermal Fillers And Toxins, But Must Practice According To Protocols Approved By The Board Of Nursing And That Has Been Agreed Upon By The Nurse Practitioner And A Licensed Physician; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Anatomical gifts; prohibit discrimination against recipient based on disability.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Enact Cole'S Law To Prohibit Discrimination Against Recipients Of An Anatomical Gift Or Organ Transplant Based On Disability; To Define Certain Terms For The Act; To Provide Requirements For Covered Entities; To Provide For The Relief Provided By The Act; To Provide Certain Requirements Of Insurers; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Revocation of physicians license by Board of Medical Licensure; provide certain grounds for reinstatement.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 73-25-32, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide Certain Grounds For Reinstatement Of A Physicians License That Has Been Revoked By The Board Of Medical Licensure For Violation Of Statute; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: State Board of Medical Licensure; revise organization and membership of board.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 73-43-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Change The Name Of The State Board Of Medical Licensure To The Mississippi State Board Of Medical Licensure; To Amend Section 73-43-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Add Three Consumer Members To The Board; To Provide That Each Physician Member Of The Board Shall Hold A Current Mississippi License To Practice Medicine; To Revise The Membership Of The Board And The Appointment Deadlines; To Amend Section 73-43-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Consumer Members Of The Board May Discuss, Vote And Nominate Candidates For Office But Shall Not Hold Office; To Amend Section 73-43-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide For The Quorum Of The Board; To Amend Section 73-43-11, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Board, Through Its Executive Director, Hire Investigators To Conduct Investigations; To Amend Section 73-43-14, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Membership Of The Board To Conform To The Provisions Of This Act; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: "Health Care Contracting Simplification Act"; create.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Create New Sections 83-9-401 Through 83-9-419, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Enact The Health Care Contracting Simplification Act; To Provide Definitions For The Act; To Prohibit The All-Products Clause; To Prohibit The Most-Favored-Nation Clause; To Provide Further Requirements Of Health Care Contracts; To Provide That The Mississippi Insurance Department Shall Enforce This Act; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Freestanding emergency room; revise definition to include rural emergency hospital and specify other criteria.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 41-75-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Definition Of Freestanding Emergency Room To Include Rural Emergency Hospitals; To Provide That In Order To Be Eligible For Licensure, The Emergency Rooms And Hospitals Shall Be Located At Least 15 Miles From The Nearest Hospital-Based Emergency Room In Any Rural Community Which The Federal Cmms Has Designated As A Medically Underserved Area In A County Without An Emergency Hospital That Is Open 24 Hours A Day And The Owner Or Manager Is A Hospital Operator Of An Existing Rural Mississippi Hospital At The Time Of Licensure; To Bring Forward Section 41-75-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: South Mississippi Regional Health Care Authority Act; create.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Create The South Mississippi Regional Health Care Authority Act Of 2022; To Declare The Legislative Purpose Of The Authority; To Prescribe The Powers And Duties Of The Authority; To Grant The Authority Certain Powers; To Exempt The Authority From Certain Statutes Applicable To Community Hospitals And Other Governing Authorities; To Provide For State Action Immunity; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Anesthesiologist Assistants; provide for licensure and regulations by Board of Medical Licensure.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Provide For The Licensure And Regulation Of Anesthesiologist Assistants By The State Board Of Medical Licensure; To Define Certain Terms; To Provide That The Board Shall Review And Determine The Qualifications Of Persons Applying For A License To Practice As An Anesthesiologist Assistant; To Provide The Powers Of The Board Regarding Licensure Of Anesthesiologist Assistants And Prescribe The Qualifications For Licensure; To Authorize The Board To Issue Temporary Licenses; To Provide That Anesthesiologist Assistants May Assist In The Practice Of Medicine Only Under The Supervision Of An Anesthesiologist; To Provide That Anesthesiologist Assistants May Perform Only Those Duties Delegated To Them By A Supervising Anesthesiologist; To List The Duties That A Supervising Anesthesiologist May Delegate To An Anesthesiologist Assistant; To Authorize The Board To Revoke Licenses And Take Other Disciplinary Action Against Licensees And To Reinstate Licenses After Revocation; To Prohibit Practicing As An Anesthesiologist Assistant Without A License, And Provide A Criminal Penalty For Persons Convicted Of Unauthorized Practice; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: "Hazard Pay for Essential Health Care Workers" Grant Program; establish in State Department of Health.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Establish A "Hazard Pay For Essential Health Care Workers" Grant Program To Be Administered By The Mississippi Department Of Health To Provide A One-Time $1,500.00 Bonus To Compensate Health Care Workers Who Perform Jobs In Public Settings At Heightened Risk Of Exposure To Covid-19; To Provide That The Hazard Pay Program Shall Be Funded From American Rescue Plan Act (Arpa) Funds; To Define "Essential Health Care Workers; To Provide A Procedure For Employers Of Essential Health Care Workers To Apply For Such Grant Funds; To Provide That The Grant Shall Only Be Applicable During The Covid-19 Public Health Emergency; To Amend Section 41-3-15, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformity; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: South Mississippi Regional Health Care Authority Act of 2022; create.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Create The South Mississippi Regional Health Care Authority Act Of 2022; To Declare The Legislative Purpose Of The Act; To Prescribe The Powers And Duties Of The Authority; To Grant The Authority Certain Powers; To Exempt The Authority From Certain Statutes Applicable To Community Hospitals And Other Governing Authorities; To Provide Immunity For Certain Acts; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: State Board of Medical Licensure; revise certain provisions relating to licensure.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Section 73-25-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide For The Purpose Of The Chapter, The Practice Of Medicine Shall Mean The Practice Of Allopathic And Osteopathic Medicine And That Physician Shall Mean A Medical Doctor Or A Doctor Of Osteopathic Medicine; To Amend Section 73-25-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Every Person Who Desires To Obtain A License To Practice Medicine Must Apply To The Mississippi State Board Of Medical Licensure; To Provide That The Board Shall Require A Form Signed By The Applicant Consenting To The Use Of Identification Methods; To Amend Section 73-25-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require An Applicant For A License To Include Their Active And Valid Social Security Number When Filing An Application; To Amend Section 73-25-14, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Change The License Renewal Fee That The Board May Charge; To Provide For Certain Procedures For Renewal When A License Has Lapsed And The Physician Failed To Meet The Deadline Due To Extraordinary Or Other Legitimate Reasons; To Allow Physicians Who Wish To Retain Their License But Not Actively Practice Medicine To Request Retired Status For Their License; To Delete Certain Provisions Relating To Licensure And The Renewal Of A License; To Amend Section 73-25-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Allow The Executive Director Of The Board To Issue A Temporary License To Practice Medicine; To Delete Provisions Relating To The Issuance Of A Temporary License; To Amend Section 73-25-19, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Nonresident Physicians Who Do Not Hold A License From The State Shall Not Be Permitted To Practice Medicine Under Any Circumstances Unless They Possess An Applicable Temporary License; To Amend Section 73-25-21, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Act And To Delete The Provisions Relating To The Licensing Of Out-Of-State Physicians And Physicians Who Graduated From Certain Canadian Medical Schools; To Amend Section 73-25-23, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise Certain Provisions Relating To The Granting Of Limited Institutional Licenses To Graduates From A Foreign Medical School; To Amend Section 73-25-27, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Allow The Board To Send Certain Notices Electronically; To Allow The Board To Seek The Issuance Of Administrative Inspection Warrants; To Amend Section 73-25-28, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Delete The Requirement That A Board Member Accompany The Board During An Investigation Into Disciplinary Action Against A Licensee; To Provide That Reasonable Cause For An Investigation Shall Be Demonstrated By Allegations Of One Or More Violations Of State Statute Or The Administrative Code; To Amend Section 73-25-29, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Grounds For Nonissuance, Suspension, Revocation Or Restriction Of A License Or The Denial Of Reinstatement Or Renewal Of A License; To Amend Section 73-25-30, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Delete Certain Provisions Relating To The Discipline Of Licensees; To Provide For The Maximum Assessment That The Board May Assess A Licensee For Reasonable Costs Expended By The Board In The Investigation Of A Disciplinary Action; To Amend Section 73-25-32, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Delete The Requirement That A Petition To Reinstate A License Be Accompanied By Letters Of Recommendations; To Set The Time Period To Reinstate A License For A Person Who Has Had Their License Revoked; To Provide That The Board May Require An Applicant To Submit To A Professional Competency Evaluation To Have Their License Reinstated; To Amend Section 73-25-33, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Define The Practice Of Medicine; To Allow The Board To Charge And Fine Individuals Engaged In The Unlawful Practice Of Medicine; To Set The Fines For Violations Of The Act; To Amend Section 73-25-34, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Delete Certain Provisions Relating To The Unlicensed Practice Of Medicine; To Amend Section 73-25-53, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Any Person Holding A Professional License From The Board Shall Be Subject To Restriction, Suspension Or Revocation In Case Of Inability Of The Licensee To Practice Medicine With Reasonable Skill Or Safety To Patients By Reasons Of Behavioral Conduct; To Amend Sections 73-25-55, 73-25-57, 73-25-59, 73-25-61, 73-25-63, 73-25-65 And 73-25-67, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Change The Internal References From Physician To Licensee To Conform To The Act; To Amend Section 73-25-87, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Allow The Board To Impose A Fine Against A Person Found To Be Unqualified Because Of Any Of The Grounds As Set Forth By The Provisions Of This Act, To Amend Section 73-25-89, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Hearing Timeline For Certain Board Investigations; To Amend Section 73-25-18, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise Provisions Relating To The Special Volunteer Medical Licensure; To Repeal Sections 73-25-7, 73-25-9, 73-25-15, 73-25-25, 73-25-39 And 73-25-81, Mississippi Code Of 1982, To Conform To The Provisions Of This Act; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Hospice care; authorize to be provided to persons who are not terminally ill under certain circumstances.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Sections 41-85-3, 41-85-7, 41-85-11 And 41-85-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The State Department Of Health May Authorize Hospice Licensees To Provide Hospice Services To Individuals Who Are Not Terminally Ill But Who Can Benefit From Palliative Care And Supportive Care Services, If Such Expansion Of The Minimum Qualifications Of Individuals Who Are Eligible To Receive Hospice Services Is Approved By The United States Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Patient Choice Act of 2022; create.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Be Known As The Patient Choice Act Of 2022; To Create New Section 83-41-221, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That An Insured Is Entitled To Benefits Under A Health Benefit Plan If The Health Benefit Plan Provides For Reimbursement For The Service If Performed By A Duly Licensed Physician Or Podiatrist And The Service Is Performed By A Duly Licensed Physician Or Podiatrist; To Create New Section 83-41-223, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That A Health Benefit Plan Shall Not Discriminate Against Any Physician Who Is Located Within The Geographic Coverage Area Of The Health Benefit Plan And Who Is Willing To Meet The Terms And Conditions For Participation Established By The Health Benefit Plan; To Create New Section 83-41-225, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Nothing In This Article Shall Be Construed To Require Or Prohibit The Same Reimbursement To Different Types Of Physicians Whose Licensed Scope Of Specialty Practice Differs; To Provide That Nothing In This Article Shall Be Construed To Require Or Prohibit Coverage Of The Services Of Any Particular Type Of Provider; To Create New Section 83-41-227, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That A Health Benefit Plan Shall Not, Directly Or Indirectly, Prohibit Or Limit A Physician That Is Qualified Under This Article And Is Willing To Accept The Health Benefit Plan'S Operating Terms And Conditions, Schedule Of Fees, Covered Expenses And Utilization Regulations And Quality Standards, From The Opportunity To Participate In That Plan; To Provide That Nothing In This Article Shall Prevent A Health Benefit Plan From Instituting Measures Designed To Maintain Quality And To Control Costs, Including, But Not Limited To, The Utilization Of A Gatekeeper System, As Long As Such Measures Are Imposed Equally On All Providers In The Same Class; To Create New Section 83-41-229, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify How The Article Should Be Construed; To Create New Section 83-41-231, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify The Commissioner Of Insurance'S Powers And Duties Regarding Article 5, Chapter 41, Title 83; To Amend Sections 83-41-203, 83-41-211, 83-41-213 And 83-41-215, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise Certain Existing Laws Providing For Choice Of Practitioner; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Advance care planning service coverage provided by health plans, medical assistance, and MinnesotaCare.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-31
Last Action Date: Author added Bahner. 2022-02-01
Location: US-MN
Title: School Immunization; authorize exemption from requirements for religious beliefs.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Died In Committee. 2022-02-01
Description: An Act To Amend Sections 41-23-37 And 43-20-8, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize Exemptions From The Immunization Requirements Of Schools And Licensed Child Care Facilities When A Parent Or Legal Guardian Objects To Immunization Of The Child On The Grounds That The Immunization Conflicts With The Religious Beliefs Of The Parent Or Guardian; To Provide That A Parent Or Guardian Must First Furnish The Responsible Official Of The School Or Facility An Affidavit In Which The Parent Or Guardian Swears Or Affirms That The Immunization Required Conflicts With The Religious Beliefs Of The Parent Or Guardian Before A Child Is Exempted From Immunization On Religious Grounds; And For Related Purposes.
Location: US-MS
Title: Health Care - As introduced, establishes independent dispute resolution procedures for emergency services and balance bills. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-04
Last Action Date: Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.. 2022-01-31
Location: US-TN
Title: An Act relative to screening for childhood trauma
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a study order, see S2627. 2022-01-31
Description: By Ms. Creem, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 91) of Cynthia Stone Creem, Vanna Howard, Susannah M. Whipps, Sal N. DiDomenico and others for legislation relative to screen for childhood trauma. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
Location: US-MA
Title: Improving worker safety and patient care in health care facilities by addressing staffing needs, overtime, meal and rest breaks, and enforcement.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-07
Last Action Date: Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor, Commerce & Tribal Affairs at 9:30 AM.. 2022-01-31
Location: US-WA
Title: Health care provider reimbursement arrangement disclosure required to enrollees and health care providers, ombudsperson duties for public managed health care programs modified, and health carrier liability provided when health care provider is limited in providing services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-31
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce Finance and Policy. 2022-01-31
Location: US-MN
Title: Health care providers permitted to establish and make available elective medical service bundle retail prices, provider's itemized price for individual made binding on provider, provider contract prohibited, and retaliation against provider prohibited.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-31
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce Finance and Policy. 2022-01-31
Location: US-MN
Title: Concerning cost-sharing fairness.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-18
Last Action Date: Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 8:00 AM.. 2022-01-28
Location: US-WA
Title: INSURANCE APPROVED PROVIDER INFO
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-28
Last Action Date: Action Postponed Indefinitely. 2022-01-28
Location: US-NM
Title: Relating To Parental Rights.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-26
Last Action Date: Referred to HHH, EDN, JHA, referral sheet 3. 2022-01-28
Description: Establishes rights of parents and legal guardians of minor children to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of their minor child.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Telehealth.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-26
Last Action Date: Referred to HTH, CPN.. 2022-01-28
Description: Prohibits health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage of a service solely because the service is provided through telehealth and not through face-to-face contact. Requires parity between telehealth services and face-to-face services for purposes of deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, benefit limits, and utilization reviews.
Location: US-HI
Title: Seizure Safe Schools Act
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-12-16
Last Action Date: Referred to Committee on Education (Senate Journal-page 4). 2022-01-27
Description: A Bill To Amend The Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, To Enact The "Seizure Safe Schools Act" By Adding Section 59-63-97 So As To Require The Establishment Of Seizure Action Plans In Public Schools, And To Provide Requirements For Such Plans And Their Implementation, Among Other Things.
Location: US-SC
Title: State Employees - As introduced, designates any employee of a service provider that contracts with the department of children's services to provide care or services for children as a state employee for the purposes of eligibility for enrollment in a basic health plan. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 36.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-25
Last Action Date: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee. 2022-01-27
Location: US-TN
Title: A bill for an act relating to continuity of care and nonmedical switching by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations, and including applicability provisions.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Tabled until future meeting.. 2022-01-26
Location: US-IA
Title: Relating To Telehealth.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-21
Last Action Date: Referred to HHH, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 2. 2022-01-26
Description: Prohibits health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage of a service solely because the service is provided through telehealth and not through face-to-face contact. Requires parity between telehealth services and face-to-face services for purposes of deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, benefit limits, and utilization reviews.
Location: US-HI
Title: Health Insurance – Individual Market Stabilization – Extension of Provider Fee
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-24
Last Action Date: Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m.. 2022-01-26
Description: Continuing the stabilization of the individual health insurance market by extending to calendar year 2028 the assessment of a health insurance provider fee.
Location: US-MD
Title: DISCLOSURE ACT
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-26
Last Action Date: Action Postponed Indefinitely. 2022-01-26
Location: US-NM
Title: Health Occupations - Clinical Nurse Specialists - Prescribing Authority
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Hearing 2/01 at 1:30 p.m.. 2022-01-25
Description: Defining "clinical nurse specialist" and "practice as a clinical nurse specialist" for the purpose of authorizing clinical nurse specialists to prescribe drugs and durable medical equipment under regulations adopted by the State Board of Nursing; altering the definition of "authorized prescriber" for purposes of the Maryland Pharmacy Act to include clinical nurse specialists; and authorizing a licensed physician to personally prepare and dispense a prescription written by a clinical nurse specialist.
Location: US-MD
Title: Relates to the training requirements for prescribers of certain pain medications
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-25
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-25
Description: Relates to the training requirements for prescribers of certain pain medications.
Location: US-NY
Title: Torts; gross negligence standard in actions involving COVID-19 liability claims against healthcare facilities, healthcare providers, entities, and individuals; clarify
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-23
Last Action Date: House Withdrawn, Recommitted. 2022-01-24
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 16 of Title 51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to COVID-19 pandemic business safety, so as to clarify the gross negligence standard in actions involving COVID-19 liability claims against healthcare facilities, healthcare providers, entities, and individuals; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Insurance; preexisting conditions; essential benefits
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-20
Last Action Date: House Second Reading. 2022-01-24
Location: US-AZ
Title: Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations, benefits consortium.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (SB195-Mason) (14-Y 0-N). 2022-01-24
Description: Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations; benefits consortium. Provides that certain trusts constitute a benefits consortium and are authorized to sell health benefits plans to members of a sponsoring association that is a nonstock corporation, has five or more members participating in one or more benefits plans, has been formed for purposes other than obtaining or providing health benefits, and operates as a nonprofit entity under § 501(c)(6) of the federal Internal Revenue Code. The bill provides that a person may be a member of sponsoring association if he conducts business operations within the Commonwealth, employs individuals who reside in the Commonwealth, and is a member of the sponsoring association. The bill provides that the trust is subject to the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and U.S. Department of Labor regulations applicable to multiple employer welfare arrangements and to the authority of the U.S. Department of Labor to enforce such law and regulations. The bill (i) prohibits a self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) from issuing health benefit plans in the Commonwealth until it has obtained a license from the State Corporation Commission; (ii) provides that health benefit plans issued by a self-funded MEWA shall be subject to taxes and maintenance assessments levied upon insurance companies; (iii) provides that health benefit plans issued by a self-funded MEWA are subject to protections of and other provisions of the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; (iv) makes domestic self-funded MEWAs subject to all financial and solvency requirements imposed by provisions of Title 38.2 on domestic insurers unless domestic self-funded MEWAs are otherwise specifically exempted; and (v) provides that health benefit plans issued by a self-funded MEWA shall be exempt from all statutory requirements relating to insurance premium rates, policy forms, and policy cancellation and nonrenewal. The bill provides that the sponsoring association shall not, by virtue of its sponsorship of the benefits consortium or any benefits plan, be subject to the insurance laws of the Commonwealth or the tax levied on insurance companies by the Commonwealth. The measure removes the requirements that an association to which a group accident and sickness insurance policy is issued has at the outset a minimum of 100 persons, has been organized and maintained in good faith for purposes other than that of obtaining insurance, and has been in active existence for at least five years. The measure also replaces references to "bona fide association," as used in provisions applicable to health care plans in the small employer market, with the term "sponsoring association."
Location: US-VA
Title: Requiring coverage for magnetic resonance imaging for women at high risk of developing breast cancer.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-06
Last Action Date: Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 8:00 AM.. 2022-01-21
Location: US-WA
Title: Board of Medicine rule relating to licensure, practice requirements, disciplinary and complaint procedures, continuing education, and physician assistants
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 334. 2022-01-21
Location: US-WV
Title: Telemedicine services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-06
Last Action Date: Representatives Clere, Vermilion A, Ledbetter C added as coauthors. 2022-01-20
Description: Expands the application of the telehealth statute to additional practitioners.
Location: US-IN
Title: Relates to the delivery of health care services via telehealth
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-09
Last Action Date: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE. 2022-01-19
Description: Enacts specific provisions regarding the delivery of health care services via telehealth including requiring coverage and setting reimbursement rates under certain health care plans.
Location: US-NY
Title: AN ACT prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: floor amendment (1) filed. 2022-01-19
Description: Create new sections of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit indoor smoking in businesses, places of employment, and other listed public places; exempt private residences, unless used for child care or adult day care; permit smoking in designated nonenclosed areas; require posting of "no smoking" signs at specified locations; permit local governments to adopt stricter regulations by ordinance; provide for enforcement by all peace officers and designated health department and local government employees; provide for the issuance of uniform citations for violations; prohibit employers and others from discriminating against persons who report violations; provide for fines for violations that go to the agency whose employee issued the citation; provide that no court costs or other fees be charged for violations; exempt certain research and manufacturing laboratories and agricultural buildings; amend KRS 344.040, relating to unlawful practices by an employer, to add references to state law, local ordinance, or local board of health regulation relating to smoking; amend KRS 431.450, relating to uniform citations, to provide for issuing citation forms to health departments; authorize the Department of Kentucky State Police to create and issue uniform smoking violation citations; repeal various statutes permitting smoking in public buildings; provide short title of the Smokefree Kentucky Act.
Location: US-KY
Title: STATEWIDE ORGAN DONOR REGISTRY
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-19
Last Action Date: Action Postponed Indefinitely. 2022-01-19
Location: US-NM
Title: "An Act requiring that a policy of group health insurance covering certain public employee and teacher retirees include coverage for colorectal cancer screening."
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-25
Last Action Date: (S) WITHDRAWN BY SPONSOR. 2022-01-18
Location: US-AK
Title: Authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Licensure, Practice Requirements, Disciplinary and Complaint Procedures, Continuing Education, Physician Assistants
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-18
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-01-18
Location: US-WV
Title: Concerning facility fees charged by certain health care providers.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-07
Last Action Date: Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 3:30 PM.. 2022-01-17
Location: US-WA
Title: To exempt EMS providers from Turnpike Tolls
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-01-17
Location: US-WV
Title: Penalties for offenses related to driving or being in physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence of more than one intoxicating substance.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-17
Last Action Date: First reading, referred to Public Safety.. 2022-01-17
Location: US-WA
Title: Reporting of insureds' health indicators.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-06
Last Action Date: Representative Schaibley added as coauthor. 2022-01-13
Description: Requires an insurer to report aggregate information regarding certain health indicators of its covered individuals in Indiana to the department of insurance on an annual basis. Requires the department of insurance to publish the information on its Internet web site. Requires an insurer to provide its covered individuals and prospective covered individuals with notice of the published information. Requires an insurer to provide a self-funded health plan with the opportunity to include its information as part of the insurer's reported aggregate information.
Location: US-IN
Title: Medical Ethics and Diversity Act
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-12-16
Last Action Date: Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Yow. 2022-01-12
Description: A Bill To Amend The Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, To Enact The "Medical Ethics And Diversity Act"; By Adding Chapter 139 To Title 44 So As To Set Forth Findings Of The General Assembly Regarding The Right Of Conscience In The Health Care Industry; To Define Certain Terms; To Authorize Medical Practitioners, Health Care Institutions, And Health Care Payers Not To Participate In Health Care Services That Violate The Practitioner'S Or Entity'S Conscience And To Protect These Individuals And Entities From Civil, Criminal, Or Administrative Liability And From Discrimination For Exercising Their Personal Right Of Conscience, With Exceptions; To Create A Private Right Of Action For Medical Practitioners, Health Care Institutions, And Health Care Payers For Violation Of The Chapter; And For Other Purposes.
Location: US-SC
Title: An act relating to achieving health equity across the health care system
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Read 1st time & referred to Committee on [Health and Welfare]. 2022-01-12
Location: US-VT
Title: An act relating to strengthening primary care and primary care providers
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Read 1st time & referred to Committee on [Health and Welfare]. 2022-01-12
Location: US-VT
Title: To amend the existing health insurance clean claims law to include workers' compensation providers
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-01-12
Location: US-WV
Title: Modify the five-year waiting period and 100-person minimum for an association health plan, and to allow new flexibility granted under federal rules
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-01-12
Location: US-WV
Title: Relating to changes to provider contracts related to health benefit plans and Medicaid managed care plans
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-01-12
Location: US-WV
Title: Requiring health insurance coverage for persons with diabetes
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-01-12
Location: US-WV
Title: Relating to insurance coverage for insulin
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-01-12
Location: US-WV
Title: Prohibiting insurers from denying coverage as result of pre-existing condition
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-12
Last Action Date: Filed for introduction. 2022-01-12
Location: US-WV
Title: Allows physicians to jointly negotiate with carriers over contractual terms and conditions.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-11
Last Action Date: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee. 2022-01-11
Location: US-NJ
Title: Addressing a shortage of primary care services by increasing the scope of practice of naturopathic physicians.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.. 2022-01-10
Location: US-WA
Title: Concerning health provider contracts.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Health Care & Wellness.. 2022-01-10
Location: US-WA
Title: Ensuring equity in health coverage.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.. 2022-01-10
Location: US-WA
Title: Requiring health carriers to reimburse advanced registered nurse practitioners at the same rate as physicians for the same services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.. 2022-01-10
Location: US-WA
Title: Concerning clubhouses for persons with mental illness.
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: Senate Rules "X" file.. 2022-01-10
Location: US-WA
Title: Concerning the total compensation for telemedicine services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.. 2022-01-10
Location: US-WA
Title: Removing health care coverage barriers to accessing substance use disorder treatment services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.. 2022-01-10
Location: US-WA
Title: Physicians; job description submission to Georgia Composite Medical Board; provisions
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-10
Last Action Date: Senate Recommitted. 2022-01-10
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, assistants, and others, so as to provide that job descriptions entered into between physicians and physician assistants are not required to be submitted to or approved by the Georgia Composite Medical Board; to authorize physicians to delegate the authority to physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances under certain conditions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Telehealth services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health. 2022-01-10
Description: Requires a health care provider who provides telehealth services to obtain written health care consent for the provision of telehealth services. Requires a prescriber who provides telehealth services to a patient to conduct certain components of a physical examination and document the results in the patient's medical record. Allows a prescriber to issue a prescription for a controlled substance to a patient: (1) who is receiving services through the use of telehealth; and (2) who has been previously examined by the prescriber in person. Creates an exception by allowing a prescriber who specializes in psychiatry to issue a prescription for a controlled substance to a patient who is receiving psychiatric services through the use of telehealth.
Location: US-IN
Title: AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-10
Last Action Date: to Committee on Committees (H). 2022-01-10
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed; exempt a center from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; limit liability of center; amend KRS 216B.020 to conform; add the short title Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.
Location: US-KY
Title: An act relating to health insurance coverage for newborns
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-07
Last Action Date: Read First Time and referred to the Committee on [Health Care]. 2022-01-07
Location: US-VT
Title: An act relating to making certain reforms to Vermont’s health care system
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-06
Last Action Date: Read 1st time & referred to Committee on [Health and Welfare]. 2022-01-06
Location: US-VT
Title: Enacts the New York state of health transparency act
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to the New York state of health transparency act; requires certain information be listed on the New York state of health marketplace for each plan.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to amounts payable under medical assistance
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-06
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to amounts payable under medical assistance; insures access to essential health care services and supplies by elderly and disabled individuals who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to the provision of municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal ambulance service
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-06
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to the provision of municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal ambulance service.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to insurer recovery from health care providers
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-06
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to insurer recovery from health care providers; provides that except where there is a reasonable belief of fraud or intentional misconduct, a health plan shall not determine an overpayment amount through the use of extrapolation except with the consent of the health care provider.
Location: US-NY
Title: Directs health insurers to provide enrollees the option to assign the payment of emergency services benefits directly to an out of network health care provider
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-06
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-01-05
Description: Directs health insurers to provide enrollees the option to assign the payment of emergency services benefits directly to an out of network health care provider.
Location: US-NY
Title: Enacts the good samaritan ambulance act of 2021 to allow the provision of ambulance services outside of an agency's primary territory in emergencies
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-06
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Enacts the good samaritan ambulance act to allow the provision of ambulance services outside of an agency's primary territory in emergencies.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to the treatment of domestic violence victims and documentation of injury and evidence
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-06
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to the treatment of domestic violence victims and documentation of injury and evidence; provides the type of evidence to be collected and maintained; provides that the office of victim services shall cover the costs of the domestic violence forensic exam; makes related provisions.
Location: US-NY
Title: Enacts the health care consumer and provider protection act relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-06
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans in certain counties; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident or sickness, including an individual, group, blanket or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement offered by certain enumerated entities.
Location: US-NY
Title: Creates the medical professionals across rural New York state student loan repayment fund pilot program
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-07
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to creating the medical professionals across rural New York state student loan repayment fund pilot program for certain participating professionals that make a two year commitment to practice in a tract or county defined by the health resources and services administration as being rural or eligible for a rural health grant.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to referrals of patients for health related items or services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-07
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to referrals of patients for health related items or services that are prohibited under law.
Location: US-NY
Title: Authorizes individuals to participate in the NY State of health marketplace without providing information regarding citizenship or lawful residency or receiving or requesting a subsidy
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-13
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Authorizes individuals to participate in the NY State of Health marketplace without providing information regarding citizenship or lawful residency or requesting or receiving a state or federal subsidy.
Location: US-NY
Title: Enacts the health care consumer and provider protection act relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-13
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans in certain counties; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident or sickness, including an individual, group, blanket or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement offered by certain enumerated entities.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to the New York state health care quality and cost containment commission
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-01-05
Description: Provides that the New York state health care quality and cost containment commission shall: evaluate each mandated benefit; investigate current practices of health plans with regard to the mandated benefit; investigate the potential premium impact of repealing and/or modifying the mandated benefits on all segments of the insurance market; hold at least two public hearings; submit a report to the legislature; makes related provisions.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to establishing hospital-sponsored off campus emergency departments
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Establishes hospital-sponsored off campus emergency departments as a "hospital"; sets out specific standards for operations, staffing and capacity requirements.
Location: US-NY
Title: Requires the department of health to collect and report certain data concerning COVID 19
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-19
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Requires the department of health to collect and report certain data concerning COVID-19 including racial, ethnic, and other demographic disparities throughout the state which are contributing to the amount of positive cases and the care provided for such.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-19
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to COVID-19 pandemic medical debt requirements
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-21
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Provides extensions for certain medical debt and insurance premiums related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Location: US-NY
Title: Establishes a health care disparities data collection system
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-01-05
Description: Establishes a health care disparities data collection system.
Location: US-NY
Title: Requires insurer to respond within thirty days of a request from an insured for his or her health plan documents
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-26
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-01-05
Description: Requires insurer to respond within thirty days of a written request from an insured for his or her health plan documents, including copies of most recent group or individual contracts.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to creating the N.Y. State Health Care Consumer and Provider Protection and Equity Act
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-26
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to the NYS Health Care Consumer and Provider Protection and Equity Act.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to requirements for approval for merger and consolidation of certain health care providers by the public health and health planning council
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Provides for requirements for approval for proposals to merge, consolidate, partner, acquire through the establishment of control or proposals for any other transaction or affiliation of certain health care providers.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to requiring services provided by telehealth reimbursed at the same rate as an in-office visit
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-26
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Requires services provided by telehealth be reimbursed at the same rate as an in-office visit.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to treatment of domestic violence victims and documentation of injury and evidence; repealed
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-30
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to treatment of domestic violence victims and documentation of injury and evidence; requires collection and storage of evidence and prohibits agencies from charging domestic violence victims.
Location: US-NY
Title: Limits the substitution of abuse-deterrent analgesic opioid drug products for analgesic opioids lacking such technology
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-04
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-01-05
Description: Provides for patient access to FDA approved abuse-deterrent technology to help combat opioid abuse.
Location: US-NY
Title: Allows persons in parental relation to a child to choose to immunize such child; repealer
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-08
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Allows persons in parental relation to a child to choose to immunize such child and requires a person to submit a form to such child's school when such person wishes not to administer an immunization to such child.
Location: US-NY
Title: Establishes a health care disparities data collection system
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-08
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Establishes a health care disparities data collection system.
Location: US-NY
Title: Enacts the interstate medical licensure compact
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-19
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION. 2022-01-05
Description: Enacts the interstate medical licensure compact; provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in multiple participating states, thereby enhancing the portability of a medical license and ensuring the safety of patients.
Location: US-NY
Title: Requires employees and independent contractors to notify employers and contractors upon receiving a positive result of a test for COVID-19 and provides penalties for violations
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-22
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO LABOR. 2022-01-05
Description: Requires employees and independent contractors to notify employers and contractors within three hours after receiving a positive result of a test for COVID-19; provides penalties for violations.
Location: US-NY
Title: Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services to all patients requiring such services; provides, that if the hospital is at ninety percent capacity or greater, such hospital shall connect the patient to an alternative facility within such patient's network to access such medically supervised detoxification services without any increased risk to the health or life of the patient.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to permitting pregnant women to enroll in the state health insurance exchange at any time without penalty
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-04
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-01-05
Description: Relates to permitting pregnant women to enroll in the state health insurance exchange at any time without penalty.
Location: US-NY
Title: Provides for establishment of the New York Health plan
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-08
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan; provides for collective negotiations by health care providers with New York Health.
Location: US-NY
Title: Requires insurer to respond within thirty days of a request from an insured for his or her health plan documents
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-10
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-01-05
Description: Requires insurer to respond within thirty days of a written request from an insured for his or her health plan documents, including copies of most recent group or individual contracts.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to the delivery of health care services via telehealth
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-11
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO INSURANCE. 2022-01-05
Description: Enacts specific provisions regarding the delivery of health care services via telehealth including requiring coverage and setting reimbursement rates under certain health care plans.
Location: US-NY
Title: Authorizes patients to designate an essential visitor who may assist the patient and perform certain duties on behalf of the patient
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-04-21
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Authorizes patients to designate an essential visitor who may assist the patient and perform certain duties on behalf of the patient, including communicating with facility staff regarding the needs of the patient, providing emotional stability and company, and requesting additional care or a change in the care plan.
Location: US-NY
Title: Establishes the community disaster relief and recovery act of 2022
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-11-08
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS. 2022-01-05
Description: Establishes the community disaster relief and recovery act of 2022 which will create an emergency assistance program for undocumented individuals impacted by a natural disaster.
Location: US-NY
Title: Enacts the "access to comprehensive cancer enhanced services strategy (ACCESS) demonstration project"
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-12-17
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Enacts the "access to comprehensive cancer enhanced services strategy (ACCESS) demonstration project" to assure more equitable access to specialized cancer care; makes related provisions.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to establishing hospital-sponsored off campus emergency departments
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-06
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Establishes hospital-sponsored off campus emergency departments as a "hospital"; sets out specific standards for operations, staffing and capacity requirements.
Location: US-NY
Title: Ensures timely access to high-quality medical care
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO LABOR. 2022-01-05
Description: Ensures timely access to high-quality medical care; clarifies the appropriate use of medical treatment guidelines; requires access to addiction or dependency services.
Location: US-NY
Title: Enacts the health care consumer and provider protection act relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: REFERRED TO HEALTH. 2022-01-05
Description: Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans in certain counties; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident or sickness, including an individual, group, blanket or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement offered by certain enumerated entities.
Location: US-NY
Title: An act relating to the Joint Legislative Health Care Affordability Study Committee
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-11
Last Action Date: Referred to Committee on [Appropriations] per Senate Rule 31. 2022-01-04
Location: US-VT
Title: AN ACT relating to consumer protections in health insurance.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: to Committee on Committees (H). 2022-01-04
Description: Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; establish health-status eligibility rules for health benefit plans in any market; prohibit requiring a greater premium or contribution, or different benefits coverage, on the basis of any health status-related factor; prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions; require coverage for essential health benefits; prohibit insurers from establishing lifetime or annual limits on essential health benefits; require coverage for dependent children until age 26; prohibit adjustment of premium or contribution amounts for group health plans on the basis of genetic information; require the commissioner of insurance to define essential health benefits; establish when the section controls; establish opt-in for health plans not otherwise required to comply with requirements of section; establish that the section applies to health benefit plans and health plan opt-ins on or after the date as established under that section; amend various statutes to conform; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and state postsecondary education institution self-insured employer group health plans to comply with Section 1 of the Act.
Location: US-KY
Title: AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: to Committee on Committees (H). 2022-01-04
Description: Amend KRS 342.020 to require an employer to pay for medical benefits at the time of injury and thereafter during disability instead of 780 weeks; amend KRS 342.990 to conform.
Location: US-KY
Title: Health provider contracts.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: First reading: referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance. 2022-01-04
Description: Makes various changes to the provisions that are prohibited in a health provider contract. Allows the insurance commissioner to grant a waiver to allow certain prohibited provisions in a health provider contract if certain conditions are met. Establishes enforcement provisions by the attorney general, insurance commissioner, and persons who have suffered a loss due to a violation.
Location: US-IN
Title: An act relating to patient access to and payment for health care services
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: Read 1st time & referred to Committee on [Health and Welfare]. 2022-01-04
Location: US-VT
Title: Information required on reimbursement forms.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health. 2022-01-04
Description: Requires a provider to include the service facility location in order to obtain Medicaid reimbursement from the office of the secretary of family and social services or a managed care organization. Requires health care providers to include the address of the service facility location on submitted reimbursement forms. Establishes penalties.
Location: US-IN
Title: AN ACT relating to health plan waiting periods.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: to Committee on Committees (H). 2022-01-04
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employer-sponsored health plans from imposing a waiting period; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties; amend KRS 304.17A-220 and 304.17A-750 to conform; provide that Section 1 of the Act shall apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act.
Location: US-KY
Title: AN ACT relating to coverage for injectable epinephrine devices.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2022-01-04
Last Action Date: to Committee on Committees (H). 2022-01-04
Description: Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover injectable epinephrine devices for persons 18 years of age and under; provide that the coverage shall not be subject to cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with the 18-and-under injectable epinephrine device coverage requirement; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.
Location: US-KY
Title: A bill for an act establishing the healthy Iowa program and including effective date provisions.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: * * * * * END OF 2021 ACTIONS * * * * *. 2021-12-31
Location: US-IA
Title: A bill for an act relating to continuity of care and nonmedical switching by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations, and including applicability provisions.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: * * * * * END OF 2021 ACTIONS * * * * *. 2021-12-31
Location: US-IA
Title: A bill for an act relating to continuity of care and nonmedical switching by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 656, HF 2199.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-04
Last Action Date: * * * * * END OF 2021 ACTIONS * * * * *. 2021-12-31
Location: US-IA
Title: A bill for an act relating to occupational safety and health standards, employment matters, reporting requirements, and civil liability concerning COVID-19, providing penalties and remedies, and including effective date provisions.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-25
Last Action Date: * * * * * END OF 2021 ACTIONS * * * * *. 2021-12-31
Location: US-IA
Title: A bill for an act providing for standards for mitigation of infectious disease under the state occupational health and safety law, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-01
Last Action Date: * * * * * END OF 2021 ACTIONS * * * * *. 2021-12-31
Location: US-IA
Title: A bill for an act relating to the repayment and cancellation of certain fines issued pursuant to a proclamation of disaster emergency relating to the novel coronavirus pandemic and including effective date provisions.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-01
Last Action Date: * * * * * END OF 2021 ACTIONS * * * * *. 2021-12-31
Location: US-IA
Title: A bill for an act relating to pandemic relief by excluding certain COVID-19 related grants from the individual and corporate income taxes, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-03
Last Action Date: * * * * * END OF 2021 ACTIONS * * * * *. 2021-12-31
Location: US-IA
Title: A bill for an act relating to operating-while-intoxicated offenses, including the lookback period for prior convictions, temporary restricted licenses, and ignition interlock devices, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SF 506.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-03
Last Action Date: * * * * * END OF 2021 ACTIONS * * * * *. 2021-12-31
Location: US-IA
Title: A bill for an act relating to the reimbursement of resident physician medical liability insurance premiums to certain hospitals and affiliated nonprofit organizations.(Formerly HF 436; See HF 852.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-05
Last Action Date: * * * * * END OF 2021 ACTIONS * * * * *. 2021-12-31
Location: US-IA
Title: A communication from the Department of Public Health (see Chapter 384 of the Acts of 2020) submitting a report on Safe Patient Access to Emergency Departments
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-12-23
Last Action Date: Placed on file. 2021-12-23
Location: US-MA
Title: Directs the commissioner of health to conduct a study of the delivery of ambulatory care and other medical care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-06-10
Last Action Date: APPROVAL MEMO.103. 2021-12-22
Description: Directs the commissioner of health to conduct a study of the delivery of ambulatory care and other medical care in this state in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relates to establishing a 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-06-10
Last Action Date: APPROVAL MEMO.145. 2021-12-22
Description: Establishes a 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system; provides crisis intervention services and crisis care coordination to individuals accessing the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline.
Location: US-NY
Title: DPH Emergency Department Access Working Group Report
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-12-20
Last Action Date: Placed on file. 2021-12-20
Description: Report of the Department of Public Health (pursuant to Section 2 of Chapter 384 of the Acts of 2020) submitting its report entitled “Safe Patient Access to Emergency Departments”
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, providing for administration of emergency anti-seizure medication.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-12-14
Last Action Date: Referred to EDUCATION. 2021-12-14
Location: US-PA
Title: Relating To Prescription Drugs.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-21
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Directs the Department of Health to implement a program for wholesale importation of prescription drugs.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Vaccines.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2051. (SD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Public Health Emergency Testing.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires the State, in a declared public health emergency, to provide diagnostic and antibody tests free of charge to persons who are unable to pay for tests. Mandates health insurance coverage for diagnostic and antibody tests in the event of a declared public health emergency.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Health.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires medicaid and insurance coverage of ambulance services. Authorizes medicaid programs, and requires private insurers, to pay for community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Appropriates moneys for costs resulting from medicaid coverage of ambulance service and community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Effective 7/1/2022.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Emergency Response Vehicles.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Establishes an emergency response vehicle noise task force to determine the impact of emergency response vehicle sirens in terms of excessive noise, the effect on public safety, and the relative effectiveness of the use of emergency lights instead of the use of sirens at night.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Health.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires medicaid and insurance coverage of ambulance services. Authorizes medicaid programs, and requires private insurers, to pay for community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Appropriates moneys for costs resulting from medicaid coverage of ambulance service and community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Requires the Auditor to submit a report to the Legislature. Section 7 effective 7/1/2022. (SD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Discrimination.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Prohibits certain discriminatory practices based on an individual's invasive medical test status or vaccination status.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Health Care Insurance.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Prohibits a health care insurer, mutual benefit society, or health maintenance organization from requiring an insured, subscriber, member, or enrollee diagnosed with stage two through stage four cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for the drug prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions, for health insurance policies and contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2021. Requires Auditor to conduct impact assessment report on mandated health insurance coverage.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Health.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Imposes dollar limits on specialty tiers in order to protect patients from unaffordable coinsurance or copayment amounts. Limits patients' coinsurance or copayment fees for specialty tier drugs to $150 per month for up to a thirty-day period supply. Allow patients to request an exception to obtain a specialty drug that would not otherwise be available on a health plan formulary.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Advanced Practice Registered Nurses.
Current Status: Passed Senate
Introduction Date: 2021-01-25
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to order, assess, and certify home health care eligibility for medicare beneficiaries. Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to certify whether a person is totally disabled under the state income tax code. Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to make capacity determinations. Adds advanced practice registered nurses as primary providers in advance mental health care directives. (SD2)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Health.
Current Status: Passed Senate
Introduction Date: 2021-01-25
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires assessment of patients who are subject to emergency hospitalization, diagnosed with a mental illness or severe substance use disorder, and found to be lacking decisional capacity to determine if a surrogate or guardian needs to be appointed to make appropriate health care decisions for the patient. Effective 7/1/2060. (SD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Health Insurance.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for annual mental health screenings beginning 1/1/2022. Requires an impact assessment report.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Health.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-25
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires medicaid and insurance coverage of ambulance services. Authorizes medicaid programs, and requires private insurers, to pay for community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Appropriates moneys for costs resulting from medicaid coverage of ambulance service and community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Effective 7/1/2022.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Advanced Practice Registered Nurses.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to certify whether a person is totally disabled under the income tax code. Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to make capacity determinations. Adds advanced practice registered nurses as primary providers in advance mental health care directives. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Emergency Response Vehicles.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-25
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Establishes an emergency response vehicle noise task force to determine the impact of emergency response vehicle sirens in terms of excessive noise, the effect on public safety, and the relative effectiveness of the use of emergency lights instead of the use of sirens at night.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Public Health Planning.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires the department of health to coordinate with health insurance providers to gather and analyze public health statistics, public health program data, epidemiological data, and administrative data to implement and update a statewide public health planning and development program.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Opioids.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires providers authorized to prescribe opioids to discuss with patients certain risks associated with controlled substances that are opioids prior to issuing initial opioid prescriptions for the treatment of acute pain. Requires providers to include a note acknowledging the discussion of the risks associated with opioids in the patient's medical record.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To The Medicaid Sustainability Program.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Establishes the Medicaid Sustainability Program for 2 years. Appropriates funds out of the Medicaid Sustainability Program Special Fund for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. Sunsets on 12/31/2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To The Hospital Sustainability Program.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Continues the Hospital Sustainability Program for two years.? Appropriates funds out of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To The Hawaii Health Authority.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Abolishes the Hawaii Health Authority.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Health.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires the department of health to establish a fee for inspections of public swimming pools. Increases the annual permit fee and temporary permit fee for tattoo artists. Increases the fee for certified copies of vital statistic records. Requires the department of health to coordinate public health statistics and other public health data to implement and update a statewide public health planning and public health program development program. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Health Care.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Establishes the Hawaii self-insured health care system, to be developed by the Hawaii health authority, EUTF, and medicaid. Effective 5/1/2021.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To The Electronic Prescription Accountability System.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Amends section 329-101(b) and (d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require that the dispensing of a pharmacist-prescribed opioid antagonist be reported to the State's Electronic Prescription Accountability System. (SD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To The Electronic Prescription Accountability System.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Amends section 329-101(b) and (d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require that the dispensing of a pharmacist-prescribed opioid antagonist be reported to the State's Electronic Prescription Accountability System.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To The Hawaii Health Authority.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Abolishes the Hawaii Health Authority.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Child Passenger Restraints.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Amends requirements for child passengers. Requires rear facing child safety seats for children less than two years of age. Requires the use of child safety seats or booster seats for certain children less than ten years of age. Raises certain fines for violations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To The Transition Of The Oahu Regional Health Care System From The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Into The Department Of Health.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Commences the transfer of the Oahu regional health care system in its entirety from the Hawaii health systems corporation to the department of health, beginning with the transfer of the Oahu regional health care system's budget into the department of health. Enables the Oahu regional health care system, department of health, Hawaii health systems corporation, and other state agencies to manage and implement the processes required to effectuate the completion of the transition. Authorizes the department of health to conduct long-term care and substance abuse treatment at Leahi hospital and Maluhia and to pay rent for the use of the Leahi hospital property. Requires the department of health to consult with the university of Hawaii regarding programs at Leahi hospital and Maluhia. Clarifies the rights, powers, and exemptions of the Oahu regional system board during the transition period of the Oahu regional health care system into the department of health and the rights and powers of the department of health after the transition is completed. Appropriates monies from the mental health and substance abuse special fund. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds. Part II effective 7/1/2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To The Transition Of The Oahu Regional Health Care System From The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Into The Department Of Health.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Commences the transfer of the Oahu regional health care system in its entirety from the Hawaii health systems corporation to the department of health, beginning with the transfer of the Oahu regional health care system's budget and position count into the department of health. Enables the Oahu regional health care system, department of health, Hawaii health systems corporation, and other state agencies to manage and implement the processes required to effectuate the completion of such transition. Part II takes effect on 6/30/2021.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Statewide Health Planning.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Authorizes either the State Health Planning and Development Agency or the Department of Health to deploy statewide health planning and resource development programs and resources. Provides that any money in the state health planning and development special fund in excess of $2,000,000 shall lapse to the general fund. Effective 7/1/2050. Department of Health's duty to deploy programs and resources repeals 6/30/2026. (SD2)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Digital Health Records.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires coordination to link certain information on social services, organ donor status, and immunization data to the statewide health information exchange. Makes participation in the Hawaii immunization registry mandatory for all providers of immunizations, including COVID-19 vaccines, beginning 08/01/2021.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Health Care.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Establishes the Hawaii self-insured health care system, to be developed by the Hawaii health authority, EUTF, and medicaid. Effective 5/1/2021.
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Ignition Interlock Devices.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Carried over to 2022 Regular Session.. 2021-12-10
Description: Establishes a system of graduated penalties for violations of the ignition interlock law. Requires proof of compliance with the ignition interlock law to be eligible to apply for a driver's license. Effective 1/1/2022. (SD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relates to prescription drugs in Medicaid managed care programs; repealer
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN. 2021-12-10
Description: Requires Medicaid managed care, and Child Health Plus plans to adopt the procedural protections of the Preferred Drug Program, including "prescriber prevails," for all drugs.
Location: US-NY
Title: An Act relative to step therapy and patient safety
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied H1311. 2021-11-15
Description: By Mr. Cyr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 756) of Julian Cyr, Elizabeth A. Malia, Patrick M. O'Connor, Jack Patrick Lewis and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to step therapy and patient safety. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to improve health care cost accountability
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a new draft, see H4248. 2021-11-15
Description: By Mr. Honan of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1275) of Kevin G. Honan and Vanna Howard for legislation to improve health care cost accountability. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to ensure more affordable care
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Accompanied a new draft, see H4248. 2021-11-15
Description: By Ms. Barber of Somerville, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1247) of Christine P. Barber and others relative to cost and access of health insurance. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: Health care coverage: step therapy.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 742, Statutes of 2021.. 2021-10-09
Description: AB 347, Arambula. Health care coverage: step therapy. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene), provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law authorizes a health insurer to require step therapy if there is more than one drug that is appropriate for the treatment of a medical condition, and authorizes a health care service plan to utilize step therapy consistent with Knox-Keene. Under existing law, if a health care service plan, health insurer, or contracted physician group fails to respond to a completed prior authorization request from a prescribing provider within a specified timeframe, the prior authorization request is deemed to have been granted.This bill would clarify that a health care service plan that provides coverage for prescription drugs may require step therapy, as defined, if there is more than one drug that is clinically appropriate for the treatment of a medical condition. The bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer to expeditiously grant a step therapy exception request if the health care provider submits justification and supporting clinical documentation, as specified, supporting the provider’s determination that the required prescription drug is inconsistent with good professional practice for provision of medically necessary covered services to the enrollee or insured, based on specified criteria. The bill would authorize a health care provider or prescribing provider to appeal a denial of an exception request for coverage of a nonformulary drug, prior authorization request, or step therapy exception request consistent with the health care service plan’s or health insurer’s current utilization management processes. The bill would authorize an enrollee or insured, or their designee or guardian, to appeal a denial of an exception request for coverage of a nonformulary drug, prior authorization request, or step therapy exception request, as specified. The bill would require a prior authorization or step therapy exception request to be deemed approved for the duration of the prescription, including refills, if a health care service plan, health insurer, or contracted physician group fails to send an approval or denial within a specified timeframe. Commencing January 1, 2022, the bill would require a contract between a health care service plan or health insurer and a utilization review organization that performs utilization review or utilization management functions on behalf of health care service plans or health insurers, or between a health care service plan and another contracted entity, to include terms that require the utilization review organization or other contracted entity to comply with specified provisions relating to step therapy determinations and procedures. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Location: US-CA
Title: Ancra-Implicit Bias Training
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0604. 2021-08-27
Description: Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Requires mandated reporters to complete an initial implicit bias training within 3 months of their date of engagement in a professional or official capacity as a mandated reporter, with certain exceptions, and at least every 3 years thereafter. Provides that the implicit bias trainings shall be in-person or web-based and shall include, at a minimum, information on implicit bias and racial and ethnic sensitivity. Requires the implicit bias trainings to provide tools to adjust automatic patterns of thinking and ultimately eliminate discriminatory behaviors. Provides that, during these trainings, mandated reporters shall complete a pretest to assess baseline implicit bias levels, an implicit bias training task, and a posttest to reevaluate bias levels after training. Provides that the implicit bias curriculum for mandated reporters shall be developed within one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act and shall be created in consultation with organizations demonstrating expertise and or experience in the areas of implicit bias, youth and adolescent developmental issues, prevention of child abuse, exploitation, and neglect, culturally diverse family systems, and the child welfare system. Provides that implicit bias training shall be provided through the Department of Children and Family Services, through authorized entities. Requires mandated reporters to complete an initial mandated reporter training, including a section on implicit bias training (rather than an initial mandated reporter training and an initial implicit bias training). Replaces all references to "implicit bias training" with "implicit bias". Provides that the implicit bias section (rather than the implicit bias trainings) shall be in-person or web-based and shall include information on certain topics. Provides that the mandated reporter training, including a section on implicit bias training, shall be provided through the Department of Children and Family Services (rather than the mandated reporter training and the implicit bias training shall be provided through the Department).
Location: US-IL
Title: Alternative Health Care Models
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-08
Last Action Date: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0414. 2021-08-20
Description: Amends the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act. In provisions regarding demonstration program requirements, requires there to be 6 (rather than 4) birth center alternative health care models in the demonstration program located in the area comprising Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties, 2 (rather than one) of which shall be owned or operated by a federally qualified health center. Provides that one birth center alternative health care model in the demonstration program shall be located within Planning Area A-3 to address the disparate perinatal and child health outcomes in Planning Area A-3. Provides that birth centers located in Planning Area A-3 or operated by a federally qualified health center are exempt from the requirements of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act or successor Acts. Effective immediately. Provides that there shall be no more than 17 (rather than 12) birth center alternative health care models in the demonstration program. Provides that: 10 (rather than 6) birth center alternative health care models shall be located in the area comprising Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties; 2 birth center alternative health care models shall be located in Planning Area A-2; 2 birth center alternative health care models shall be located in Planning Area A-4; and one birth center alternative health care model shall be located in the City of East St. Louis in Planning Area F-1. Removes language providing that a birth center located in Planning Area A-3 or operated by a federally qualified health center is exempt from the requirements of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act or successor Acts.
Location: US-IL
Title: Physicians-Dementia Training
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-25
Last Action Date: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0399. 2021-08-16
Description: Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides that not later than 12 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall adopt rules that require a person seeking licensure to practice medicine in all of its branches to have completed 3 hours of education on the diagnosis, treatment, and care of individuals with cognitive impairments, including, but not limited to, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Specifies that the education requirement shall only apply to applicants who serve or will serve adult populations and have or will have direct patient interactions in their capacity as physicians. Provides that not later than 12 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the Department shall adopt rules that require any continuing education for persons licensed to practice medicine under all of its branches to include an average of one hour of continuing education per license year on the diagnosis, treatment, and care of individuals with cognitive impairments, including, but not limited to, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Specifies that the continuing education requirement shall only apply to persons who serve adult populations and have direct patient interactions in their capacity as physicians. Provides that the curriculum used for the education and continuing education requirements shall cover the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, including recognizing the signs and symptoms of dementia; person-centered care; assessment and care planning; and culturally competent health care. Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that for license or registration renewals occurring on or after January 1, 2023, a health care professional who has continuing education requirements must complete at least a one-hour course in training on the diagnosis, treatment, and care of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias per renewal period. Provides that the training shall include, but not be limited to, assessment and diagnosis, effective communication strategies, and management and care planning. Provides that the requirement shall only apply to health care professionals who provide health care services to adult populations age 26 or older in the practice of their profession. Provides that a health care professional may count that one hour for completion of the course toward meeting the minimum credit hours required for continuing education. Provides that any training on Alzheimer's disease and other dementias applied to meet any other State licensure requirement, professional accreditation or certification requirement, or health care institutional practice agreement may count toward the continuing education requirement. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may adopt rules for the implementation of the continuing education requirement. Effective immediately. Provides that the continuing education requirements shall only apply to health care professionals who provide health care services to, and have direct patient interactions with (rather than who provide health care services to), adult populations age 26 or older in the practice of their profession.
Location: US-IL
Title: Office of Medicaid 2020 Mental Health Parity Report
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-08-16
Last Action Date: Placed on file. 2021-08-16
Description: Report of the Office of Medicaid (pursuant to Section 265 of Chapter 224 of the Acts of 2012) submitting its 2020 annual report certifying the compliance of contracted health plans with mental health parity requirements
Location: US-MA
Title: (New Title) relative to in-network retail pharmacies.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-26
Last Action Date: Signed by the Governor on 07/23/2021; Chapter 0149; Effective 09/21/2021. 2021-07-26
Location: US-NH
Title: An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions -- Rhode Island Health Information Exchange Act Of 2008 (Provides Patients Opportunity To Opt Out Of Information Disclosure Under Hie.)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-03-04
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2021-07-12
Location: US-RI
Title: Imdma-Health Insurance
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-17
Last Action Date: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0087. 2021-07-09
Description: Amends a Section of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act regarding health insurance coverage for children. Defines "insurance obligee" as an individual to whom a health insurance obligation is owed on behalf of a child and "insurance obligor" as an individual who has an obligation to provide health insurance for a child. Changes certain terminology in the Section to conform to the new defined terms. Deletes language providing that the court shall enter an order for health insurance coverage of the child upon the request of the obligee or the public office in charge of child support enforcement. Deletes certain requirements concerning the procedures and notice obligations governing an application for insurability following the entry of an order. Deletes language providing that the court shall order the obligor to reimburse the obligee for 50% of the premium for placing the child on his or her health insurance policy under certain circumstances. Deletes language providing that the court may order the obligor to reimburse the obligee for 100% of the premium for placing the child on his or her health insurance policy. Deletes language providing that the obligor shall be liable to the obligee for the dollar amount of the premiums that were not paid. Provides that an employer may eliminate a child from the insurance obligor's health insurance coverage if the employer no longer provides a group health insurance plan to any employees or the child is no longer eligible for coverage due to federal or State restrictions. Makes other changes.
Location: US-IL
Title: Medical Practice Act-Board
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0067. 2021-07-09
Description: Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Creates the Illinois State Medical Board to carry out the duties of the Medical Disciplinary Board and the Medical Licensing Board under the Act (and makes conforming changes). Provides for membership of the Illinois State Medical Board. Provides that all members of the Medical Licensing Board and the Medical Disciplinary Board shall serve as members of the Medical Board. Requires that a majority of the Illinois State Medical Board members shall be appointed within 260 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Repeals provisions concerning the Medical Licensing Board and Medical Disciplinary Board one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may close a complaint, after investigation and approval of the Chief Medical Coordinator, if certain standards are not met. Makes changes to provisions concerning definitions; withdrawal of applications; the Complaint Committee; findings and recommendations; and administrative review. Makes other changes. Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Provides for the repeal of the Medical Practice Act of 1987 on January 1, 2027 (rather than January 1, 2022). In provisions amending the Medical Practice Act of 1987, restores language that was deleted by the introduced bill that provides that each order of revocation, suspension, or other disciplinary action shall contain a brief, concise statement of the ground or grounds upon which the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation's action is based, as well as the specific terms and conditions of such action. Provides that the document shall be retained as a permanent record by the Department (rather than the Disciplinary Board and the Secretary). Adds an immediate effective date for provisions amending the Regulatory Sunset Act. Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act. Provides that a park district shall authorize a program participant's parent, guardian, or other designated caregiver to administer a medical cannabis infused product to the program participant on the premises of the park district if both the program participant and the parent, guardian, or other designated caregiver are cardholders. Contains requirements for designated caregivers. Provides that a member of the park district's staff is not required to administer a medical cannabis infused product to a program participant. Provides that a park district may not authorize the use of a medical cannabis infused product if the park district would lose federal funding as a result of the authorization. Provides that the amendatory provisions are exempt from specified limitations and penalties. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Location: US-IL
Title: An Act To Improve Health Care Data Analysis
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-22
Last Action Date: Signed by the Governor. 2021-07-08
Location: US-ME
Title: Relating To The Transition Of The Oahu Regional Health Care System From The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Into The Department Of Health.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Act 212, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1340).. 2021-07-07
Description: Commences the transfer of the Oahu regional health care system in its entirety from the Hawaii health systems corporation to the department of health. Requires the transfer to be completed no later than 12/31/22. Enables the Oahu regional health care system, department of health, Hawaii health systems corporation, and other state agencies to manage and implement the processes required to effectuate the completion of the transition. Authorizes the department of health to conduct long-term care and substance abuse treatment at Leahi hospital and Maluhia and to pay rent for the use of the Leahi hospital property. Requires the department of health to consult with the University of Hawaii regarding programs at Leahi hospital and Maluhia. Clarifies the rights, powers, and exemptions of the Oahu regional system board during the transition period of the Oahu regional health care system into the department of health and the rights and powers of the department of health after the transition is completed. Establishes a working group. Appropriates moneys from the mental health and substance abuse special fund. Appropriates moneys from the funds received by the State of Hawaii from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law 117-2 (Section 9901). (CD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Relating To Emergency Medical Services.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Act 208, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336).. 2021-07-07
Description: Establishes a three-year transfer of certain duties, functions, and powers relating to emergency medical services for the city and county of Honolulu from the department of health to the city and county of Honolulu. Begins transition on 7/1/2021. Appropriates moneys in the emergency medical services special fund to the city and county of Honolulu for fiscal years 20212022 and 2022-2023. Appropriates moneys from funds received by the State from the American Rescue Plan Act, Public Law 117-2 (Section 9901), to the department of health for fiscal years 20212022 and 20222023 for the emergency medical services and injury prevention system. Phases out funding from general revenues for emergency medical services in the city and county of Honolulu before 7/1/2024. (CD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- The Telemedicine Coverage Act (Amends The Provisions Of The Telemedicine Coverage Act And Provide Coverage For Telemedicine Under Rhode Island Medicaid.)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-11
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2021-07-06
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles -- Motor Vehicle Offenses (Grants A Judge Or Magistrate The Discretion To Impose The Requirement Of Blood And/Or Urine Testing Or The Use Of The Ignition Interlock System.)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor. 2021-07-06
Location: US-RI
Title: Gracie's Law; enact
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Effective Date. 2021-07-01
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding health, so as to prohibit providers from discriminating against potential organ transplant recipients due solely to the physical or mental disability of the potential recipient; to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurance generally, so as to prohibit health insurers from discriminating against potential organ transplant recipients due solely to the physical or mental disability of the potential recipient; to provide for definitions; to provide for health benefit plans and collective bargaining; to provide for applicability; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government -- The Health Spending Transparency And Containment Act (Imposes Funding Contribution Per Health Insurer Enrollee To Program To Use Health Care Claims Data To Help Reduce Health Care Costs. The Program Provides Annual Reports To The Public And Recommendations To Governor And General Assembly. Sunsets 7/1/26.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-06-27
Last Action Date: Senate read and passed. 2021-07-01
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act amending the act of March 20, 2002 (P.L.154, No.13), known as the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (Mcare) Act, in medical professional liability, further providing for informed consent.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-04-19
Last Action Date: Act No. 61 of 2021. 2021-06-30
Location: US-PA
Title: Relating To Emergency Medical Services.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Act 119, on 06/28/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1221).. 2021-06-29
Description: Authorizes the Hawaii medical board to license emergency ambulance service personnel. Creates an additional licensure category for emergency medical technicians 1 who are certified at a higher practice level than emergency medical technicians but do not provide ambulance services. Appropriates funds from the compliance resolution fund for hiring a 0.5 full-time equivalent (0.5 FTE) permanent position. Effective 7/1/2021. (CD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: An Act To Create the Maine Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-03-30
Last Action Date: Signed by the Governor. 2021-06-23
Location: US-ME
Title: relative to reporting of health care associated infections.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-04
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor Sununu 06/18/2021; Chapter 79; Eff: 08/17/2021. 2021-06-21
Location: US-NH
Title: Establishes clinical staffing committees
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-05-04
Last Action Date: Substitute A 108 action - SIGNED CHAP.155. 2021-06-18
Description: Requires certain facilities establish clinical staffing committees.
Location: US-NY
Title: Relating to prohibited practices for certain health benefit plan issuers and pharmacy benefit managers.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-12
Last Action Date: Effective on 9/1/21. 2021-06-18
Location: US-TX
Title: An Act To Further Protect Consumers from Surprise Medical Bills
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-11
Last Action Date: Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure). 2021-06-16
Location: US-ME
Title: Relating to the repeal of certain provisions related to health and human services.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-03-03
Last Action Date: Effective on 9/1/21. 2021-06-16
Location: US-TX
Title: An Act to ensure more affordable care
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Hearing scheduled for 06/29/2021 from 11:00 AM-04:00 PM in Virtual Hearing. 2021-06-16
Description: By Ms. Barber of Somerville, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1247) of Christine P. Barber and others relative to cost and access of health insurance. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act to improve health care cost accountability
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Hearing scheduled for 06/29/2021 from 11:00 AM-04:00 PM in Virtual Hearing. 2021-06-16
Description: By Mr. Honan of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1275) of Kevin G. Honan and Vanna Howard for legislation to improve health care cost accountability. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: Relating to the provision and delivery of certain health care services in this state, including services under Medicaid and other public benefits programs, using telecommunications or information technology and to reimbursement for some of those services.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-25
Last Action Date: Effective immediately. 2021-06-15
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to county and municipal authority to balance bill for county or municipal air or ground ambulance services and to a study regarding billing by ground ambulance service providers.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Effective on 9/1/21. 2021-06-14
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the content of an application for Medicaid.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Effective immediately. 2021-06-14
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating To The Hospital Sustainability Program.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Act 038, 06/07/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1138).. 2021-06-10
Description: Extends the hospital sustainability program through 6/30/2024. Increases the maximum fee for inpatient care services to five and one-half per cent. Increases the amount of time hospitals have to pay the hospital sustainability fee from thirty days to sixty days. Appropriates moneys. Effective 6/29/2021. (CD1)
Location: US-HI
Title: Mental health: other; state-operated registries related to mental health; require to report data to the Michigan crisis and access line. Amends sec. 165 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1165).
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: assigned PA 22'21. 2021-06-09
Location: US-MI
Title: Mental health: other; information gathered by the electronic inpatient bed registry; require to be reported to the Michigan crisis and access line. Amends sec. 151 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1151).
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: assigned PA 21'21. 2021-06-09
Location: US-MI
Title: An Act relating to telemedicine; authorizing the regulation of telemedicine by professional licensing boards; and providing for insurance coverage of telemedicine.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-06-08
Last Action Date: Referred to INSURANCE. 2021-06-08
Location: US-PA
Title: Relating to the establishment of a statewide all payor claims database and health care cost disclosures by health benefit plan issuers and third-party administrators.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-23
Last Action Date: Effective on 9/1/21. 2021-06-07
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain retired firefighters and emergency medical services providers to purchase continued health benefits coverage.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Effective on 9/1/21. 2021-06-07
Location: US-TX
Title: Provides for the collection of certain data relating to health care. (BDR 40-415)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2020-11-18
Last Action Date: Approved by the Governor. Chapter 480.. 2021-06-04
Description: AN ACT relating to health care; authorizing the Patient Protection Commission to request certain reports from a state or local governmental entity; requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to establish an all-payer claims database containing information relating to health insurance claims for benefits provided in this State under certain circumstances; requiring certain insurers to submit data to the database; authorizing certain additional insurers to submit data to the database; providing for the release and use of data in the database under certain circumstances; requiring the Department to publish a report on the quality and cost of health care using data from the database; requiring the Department to submit certain other reports concerning the database to the Legislature; providing immunity from civil and criminal liability for certain persons and entities; authorizing the imposition of administrative penalties and other administrative sanctions for violations of certain requirements concerning the database; prescribing authorized uses for certain administrative penalties; requiring the Department to compile a report containing an inventory of certain data; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Location: US-NV
Title: Makes changes relating to telehealth. (BDR 40-416)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2020-11-18
Last Action Date: Approved by the Governor. Chapter 479.. 2021-06-04
Description: AN ACT relating to health care; requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to establish an electronic tool to analyze certain data concerning access to telehealth; requiring certain entities to review access to services provided through telehealth and evaluate policies to make such access more equitable; revising provisions governing services provided through telehealth and insurance coverage of such services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Location: US-NV
Title: An Act limiting out of pocket expenses
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-29
Last Action Date: Senate concurred. 2021-06-03
Description: By Mr. Mark of Peru, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1295) of Paul W. Mark relative to the maximum amount of deductibles and copayments for covered services for active and retired employees, their dependents and the survivors of deceased public employees. Health Care Financing.
Location: US-MA
Title: An Act Regarding Telehealth
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-04
Last Action Date: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD). 2021-06-02
Location: US-ME
Title: Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Health Services and Planning Act of 2021," which revises various provisions of and renames the Tennessee Health Services and Planning Act of 2002. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-10
Last Action Date: Effective date(s) 05/26/2021, 10/01/2021. 2021-06-02
Location: US-TN
Title: An Act To Amend Telehealth Laws Regarding Out-of-state Telehealth Provisions
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-04-05
Last Action Date: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD). 2021-06-02
Location: US-ME
Title: Requires the Legislative Committee on Health Care to study certain issues related to the economics of health care. (BDR S-541)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-22
Last Action Date: (No further action taken.). 2021-06-01
Description: AN ACT relating to health care; requiring the Legislative Committee on Health Care to study matters relating to the economics of health care in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Location: US-NV
Title: Revises provisions relating to mental health. (BDR 40-522)
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-26
Last Action Date: Approved by the Governor. Chapter 185.. 2021-05-28
Description: AN ACT relating to mental health; providing for the reporting of certain information by certain providers of health care relating to attempted suicide; requiring certain insurers and other organizations providing health coverage to adhere to certain provisions of federal law; requiring certain insurers and other organizations providing health coverage to submit information demonstrating mental health parity and addiction equity compliance; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Location: US-NV
Title: Relating to freedom of choice for health care services.for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 23‑12 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to vaccine information; to amend and reenact section 26.1-36-09.15 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to coverage of telehealth services; to provide for a legislative management study; and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-18
Last Action Date: Filed with Secretary Of State 05/10. 2021-05-24
Description: AN ACT to create and enact a new section to chapter 23-12 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to vaccine information; to amend and reenact section 26.1-36-09.15 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to coverage of telehealth services; to provide for a legislative management study; and to declare an emergency.
Location: US-ND
Title: An Act To Protect Consumers from Surprise Medical Bills
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-04
Last Action Date: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD). 2021-05-19
Location: US-ME
Title: An Act To Protect Medicare Beneficiaries from Surprise Medical Billing
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-30
Last Action Date: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD). 2021-05-19
Location: US-ME
Title: An Act To Clarify Surprise Billing Restrictions
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-04-12
Last Action Date: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD). 2021-05-19
Location: US-ME
Title: Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires an insurer to include cost sharing amounts paid by the enrollee, or on behalf of the enrollee by another person, when calculating an enrollee's contribution to an applicable cost sharing requirement, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-08
Last Action Date: Effective date(s) 07/01/2021. 2021-05-18
Location: US-TN
Title: Relating to consumer protections against and county and municipal authority regarding certain medical and health care billing by ambulance service providers.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-04
Last Action Date: Committee report sent to Calendars. 2021-05-14
Location: US-TX
Title: Concerning the creation of a universal health care commission.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Effective date 7/25/2021.. 2021-05-13
Location: US-WA
Title: Relating to an explanation of benefits provided by certain health benefit plans to enrollees regarding certain preauthorized medical care and health care services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-11
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-05-13
Location: US-TX
Title: Generally revise insurance laws
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-04
Last Action Date: Chapter Number Assigned. 2021-05-12
Location: US-MT
Title: Concerning capacity to provide informed consent for health care decisions.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-13
Last Action Date: Effective date 1/1/2022.. 2021-05-12
Location: US-WA
Title: Concerning health insurance discrimination.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-20
Last Action Date: Effective date 7/25/2021.. 2021-05-12
Location: US-WA
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies -- Step Therapy Protocols (Requires Health Insurers That Issue Prescription Drug Coverage To Use Step Therapy Protocols.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Referred to House Health & Human Services. 2021-05-12
Location: US-RI
Title: Relating to the definition of emergency care for purposes of certain health benefit plans.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Placed on General State Calendar. 2021-05-12
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the method of payment for certain health care and certain contract provisions affecting health care reimbursement rates.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-11
Last Action Date: Placed on General State Calendar. 2021-05-12
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the content of an application for Medicaid.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Laid on the table subject to call. 2021-05-12
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the relationship between pharmacists or pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers or health benefit plan issuers.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-04-12
Last Action Date: Left pending in committee. 2021-05-11
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to sales and use taxes on e-cigarette vapor products; imposing taxes.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-09
Last Action Date: Received from the House. 2021-05-10
Location: US-TX
Title: Health; certain medical personnel to administer vaccines during public health emergencies under certain conditions; authorize
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-29
Last Action Date: Effective Date. 2021-05-10
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to authorize certain medical personnel to administer vaccines during public health emergencies under certain conditions; to provide for vaccination information to third parties under certain public health conditions; to amend Article 2 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical practice, so as to revise certain provisions relating to the administration of vaccines under vaccine protocol agreements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: A bill for an act relating to driver’s license restrictions, including ignition interlock device requirements for a first operating-while-intoxicated offense. (Formerly HSB 251.) Effective date: 07/01/2021.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-03-05
Last Action Date: Signed by Governor.. 2021-05-10
Location: US-IA
Title: Relating to the Office for Health Equity.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Received from the House. 2021-05-05
Location: US-TX
Title: Realign Enforcement/HIE Network Participation.
Current Status: In House
Introduction Date: 2021-05-03
Last Action Date: Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House. 2021-05-04
Location: US-NC
Title: Enacting the living donor act.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2020-12-08
Last Action Date: Effective date 7/25/2021.. 2021-05-03
Location: US-WA
Title: Concerning audio-only telemedicine.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: Effective date 7/25/2021.. 2021-05-03
Location: US-WA
Title: Relating to the availability of antipsychotic prescription drugs under the vendor drug program and Medicaid managed care.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-12
Last Action Date: Co-author authorized. 2021-05-03
Location: US-TX
Title: Merge NC Health Choice & Medicaid.
Current Status: In House
Introduction Date: 2021-04-29
Last Action Date: Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House. 2021-05-03
Location: US-NC
Title: Generally revise insurance laws
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-25
Last Action Date: Chapter Number Assigned. 2021-04-30
Location: US-MT
Title: Interim study on professional licensing boards
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-02-12
Last Action Date: (C) Draft Died in Process. 2021-04-29
Location: US-MT
Title: Provide for review of proposed change to healthcare licensing scopes of practice
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-06-25
Last Action Date: (C) Draft Died in Process. 2021-04-29
Location: US-MT
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Unanticipated Out-Of-Network Bills For Health Care Services (Protects People With Health Insurance From Surprise Medical Bills For Emergency And Other Services By Requiring A Non-Participating Health Care Provider To Bill An Insured Party Only For A Co-Payment, Or Deductible.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-04-29
Location: US-RI
Title: Mental health: code; definition of mental health professional; expand to include physician assistants, certified nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists-certified, and allow them to perform certain examinations. Amends secs. 100a, 100b, 100c, 281b, 400, 420, 423, 425, 426, 427, 429, 430, 434, 435, 438, 452, 461, 463, 498o, 517, 532, 700, 740 & 742 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1100a et seq.).
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-25
Last Action Date: referred to Committee on Health Policy. 2021-04-29
Location: US-MI
Title: An Act To Ensure Choices in Health Insurance Markets
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-11
Last Action Date: Reports ReadOn motion by Senator SANBORN of Cumberland the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 139 Yeas 21 - Nays 13 - Excused 1 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD). 2021-04-28
Location: US-ME
Title: An Act To Prohibit Discriminatory Practices in Certain Health Insurance Policies
Current Status: Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-25
Last Action Date: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD). 2021-04-28
Location: US-ME
Title: Health Care & Human Services
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0004. 2021-04-27
Description: Creates the Community Health Worker Certification and Reimbursement Act. Amends various Acts regarding medical staff credentials; electronic posters and signs; N95 masks; Legionella bacteria testing; continuing education on implicit bias awareness; overdoses; the Prescription Monitoring Program; a dementia training program; taxation of blood sugar testing materials; funding of safety-net hospitals; a Child Care Assistance Program Eligibility Calculator; managed care organizations; Federally Qualified Health Centers; care coordination; billing; the Medicaid Business Opportunity Commission; reimbursement rates; doula services; personal care of family members; the State Health Assessment; the State Health Improvement Plan; child care training; and a Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Commission. Creates the Behavioral Health Workforce Education Center of Illinois Act. Creates the Underlying Causes of Crime and Violence Study Act. Creates the Special Commission on Gynecologic Cancers Act. Creates the Racial Impact Note Act to require the estimate of the impact on racial and ethnic minorities of certain bills. Creates the Health and Human Services Task Force and Study Act to review health and human service departments and programs. Creates the Anti-Racism Commission Act concerning elimination of systemic racism. Creates the Sickle Cell Prevention, Care, and Treatment Program Act regarding programs and other matters. Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act in relation to the Health Facilities and Services Review Board, facility closure, and other matters. Creates the Medicaid Technical Assistance Act. Repeals, adds, and changes other provisions. Effective immediately. Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Removes language requiring the SHA and SHIP Partnership to regularly evaluate and update the State Health Assessment and track implementation of the State Health Improvement Plan with revisions as necessary. In provisions amending the Illinois Controlled Substances Act and regarding the Prescription Monitoring Program: (1) presents the findings of the General Assembly; (2) provides that opioid treatment programs may not transmit information without patient consent, and reports made may not be utilized for law enforcement purposes; and (3) provides that treatment of a patient may not be conditioned upon his or her consent to reporting. Removes provisions amending the Illinois Public Aid Code regarding child care. Removes language requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to issue quarterly reports to the Governor and the General Assembly indicating: (i) the number of determinations of noncompliance since the last quarter; (ii) the number of financial penalties imposed; and (iii) the outcome or status of each determination. Makes other changes. Removes provisions amending the Illinois Controlled Substances Act regarding the Prescription Monitoring Program. Makes changes in provisions amending the Adult Protective Services Act regarding adult protective services dementia training. In provisions regarding increasing access to primary care in hospitals, removes language providing that the program developed by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall encourage coordination between FQHCs and hospitals. In the Sickle Cell Prevention, Care, and Treatment Program Act, provides that expenditures from the Sickle Cell Chronic Disease Fund shall be subject to appropriation. Makes the following changes to the Medicaid Technical Assistance Center Act: (1) provides that the Center: (i) shall undertake efforts to identify and engage community-based providers offering behavioral health services or services addressing the social determinants of health, especially those predominantly serving communities of color or those operating within or near service deserts, for the purpose of offering training and technical assistance to them through the Center; and (ii) is committed to the principle that all Medicaid recipients have accessible and equitable physical and mental health care services; (2) requires all providers served through the Center to deliver services notwithstanding the patient's race, color, gender, gender identity, age, ancestry, marital status, military status, religion, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, order of protection status, or immigration status; and (3) provides that moneys in the Medicaid Technical Assistance Center Fund shall be used for specified purposes, subject to appropriation. Makes other changes.
Location: US-IL
Title: Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, enacts the "Health Benefit Plan Network Access and Adequacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-08
Last Action Date: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee. 2021-04-27
Location: US-TN
Title: Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, increases from 21 days to 30 days the time within which a health insurance entity must pay on or notify a provider regarding a claim received by electronic submission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56 and Title 71.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-22
Last Action Date: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee. 2021-04-27
Location: US-TN
Title: Medical records; authorizing access to certain billing information; modifying certain fee structure. Effective date.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 04/26/2021. 2021-04-26
Location: US-OK
Title: Insurance; health insurance; prohibiting certain health insurers from removing provider from a network for certain reasons; effective date.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 04/26/2021. 2021-04-26
Location: US-OK
Title: Relating to a cost-benefit analysis for mandated health insurance coverage measures.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-05
Last Action Date: Filed with Secretary Of State 04/22. 2021-04-23
Description: AN ACT to create and enact section 26.1-36-01.1 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the scope of health insurance mandates; and to amend and reenact section 54-03-28 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to a cost-benefit analysis for mandated health insurance coverage measures; to provide an effective date; and to declare an emergency.
Location: US-ND
Title: Health insurance; requiring insurer to provide specific reason for denial of claims; authorizing certain persons to submit written appeal after denial. Effective date.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 04/23/2021. 2021-04-23
Location: US-OK
Title: Revise laws relating to psychiatric collaborative care
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-11
Last Action Date: Chapter Number Assigned. 2021-04-22
Location: US-MT
Title: Health care costs; prohibiting reporting of medical expense or certain debt to credit bureaus; good faith estimate. Effective date.
Current Status: Passed House
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Motion expired. 2021-04-22
Location: US-OK
Title: Organ donation and anatomical gifts; creating Everett's Law; prohibiting and requiring certain actions by covered entity; prohibiting certain actions by health carrier. Effective date.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 04/20/2021. 2021-04-20
Location: US-OK
Title: Expand practice of telemedicine
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-04
Last Action Date: (H) Signed by Governor. 2021-04-19
Location: US-MT
Title: Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2021-2022 state fiscal year
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-04-06
Last Action Date: SIGNED CHAP.57. 2021-04-19
Description: Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2021-2022 state fiscal year; extends the medicaid global cap; requires a quarterly report on certain medicaid expenditures (Part A); directs the department of health to remove the pharmacy benefit from the managed care benefit package and to provide the pharmacy benefit under the fee for service program (Part C); reduces the hospital capital rate add-on (Part D); relates to definitions of distant sites and telehealth providers (Part F); establishes a medical respite program to offer a lower-intensity care setting for individuals who would otherwise require a hospital stay or lack safe options for discharge and recovery (Part G); eliminates consumer-paid premium payments in the basic health program (Part H); extends the physicians medical malpractice program; extends the hospital excess liability pool; extends excess coverage under the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 (Part K); relates to the discontinuance of the empire clinical research investigator program (Part M); relates to reimbursements and payments for health care costs, and reporting of opioid overdose data (Part S); extends provisions permitting the director of a mental health facility to place funds of a person receiving services, in excess of the appropriate eligibility level for government benefits, into a qualifying Medicaid exception trust (Part T); relates to extending the authorization of appointing temporary operators for the continued operation of certain programs for people with mental illness, developmental disabilities and/or chemical dependence (Part U); extends the authority of the commissioners in the department of mental hygiene to design and implement time-limited demonstration programs to 2024; requires final reports of such programs to be included in the statewide comprehensive plan (Part V); relates to the membership of subcommittees for mental health of community service boards and the duties of such subcommittees; creates the community mental health and workforce reinvestment account; extends such provisions relating thereto (Part W); relates to the office of mental health allocating funds for the 2021-22 fiscal year (Part X); authorizes the charging of an application processing fee for the issuance of operating certificates (Part Z); relates to the creation of crisis stabilization services as emergency service providers for persons with psychiatric or substance use disorder (Part AA); relates to minimum direct care spending in residential health care facilities (Part GG); relates to designating who shall serve as members of the developmental disabilities planning council (Part HH); relates to the provision of services to certain persons suffering from traumatic brain injuries or qualifying for nursing home diversion and transition services (Part II); relates to ensuring services provided in school-based health centers are not provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs (Part JJ); extends the New York state health insurance continuation assistance demonstration project (Part KK); relates to requests for offers from fiscal intermediaries and the awarding of such contracts (Part LL); provides for aid in the transition to adulthood for children with medical fragility living in pediatric nursing homes and other settings (Part MM); provides for an exemption or disregard of income for certain individuals receiving medical assistance (Part NN); requires a regional demonstration program in the western, central, southern tier, or capital regions of the state (Part OO); relates to post-partum extended coverage insurance coverage (Part PP); requires the commissioner of health to report on the calculation and payment of prescription drug dispensing fees to retail pharmacies by the state's medical assistance program (Part QQ).
Location: US-NY
Title: Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2021-2022 state fiscal year
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-04-06
Last Action Date: Substitute S 2507 action - SIGNED CHAP.57. 2021-04-19
Description: Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2021-2022 state fiscal year; extends the medicaid global cap; requires a quarterly report on certain medicaid expenditures (Part A); directs the department of health to remove the pharmacy benefit from the managed care benefit package and to provide the pharmacy benefit under the fee for service program (Part C); reduces the hospital capital rate add-on (Part D); relates to definitions of distant sites and telehealth providers (Part F); establishes a medical respite program to offer a lower-intensity care setting for individuals who would otherwise require a hospital stay or lack safe options for discharge and recovery (Part G); eliminates consumer-paid premium payments in the basic health program (Part H); extends the physicians medical malpractice program; extends the hospital excess liability pool; extends excess coverage under the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 (Part K); relates to the discontinuance of the empire clinical research investigator program (Part M); relates to reimbursements and payments for health care costs, and reporting of opioid overdose data (Part S); extends provisions permitting the director of a mental health facility to place funds of a person receiving services, in excess of the appropriate eligibility level for government benefits, into a qualifying Medicaid exception trust (Part T); relates to extending the authorization of appointing temporary operators for the continued operation of certain programs for people with mental illness, developmental disabilities and/or chemical dependence (Part U); extends the authority of the commissioners in the department of mental hygiene to design and implement time-limited demonstration programs to 2024; requires final reports of such programs to be included in the statewide comprehensive plan (Part V); relates to the membership of subcommittees for mental health of community service boards and the duties of such subcommittees; creates the community mental health and workforce reinvestment account; extends such provisions relating thereto (Part W); relates to the office of mental health allocating funds for the 2021-22 fiscal year (Part X); authorizes the charging of an application processing fee for the issuance of operating certificates (Part Z); relates to the creation of crisis stabilization services as emergency service providers for persons with psychiatric or substance use disorder (Part AA); relates to minimum direct care spending in residential health care facilities (Part GG); relates to designating who shall serve as members of the developmental disabilities planning council (Part HH); relates to the provision of services to certain persons suffering from traumatic brain injuries or qualifying for nursing home diversion and transition services (Part II); relates to ensuring services provided in school-based health centers are not provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs (Part JJ); extends the New York state health insurance continuation assistance demonstration project (Part KK); relates to requests for offers from fiscal intermediaries and the awarding of such contracts (Part LL); provides for aid in the transition to adulthood for children with medical fragility living in pediatric nursing homes and other settings (Part MM); provides for an exemption or disregard of income for certain individuals receiving medical assistance (Part NN); requires a regional demonstration program in the western, central, southern tier, or capital regions of the state (Part OO); relates to post-partum extended coverage insurance coverage (Part PP); requires the commissioner of health to report on the calculation and payment of prescription drug dispensing fees to retail pharmacies by the state's medical assistance program (Part QQ).
Location: US-NY
Title: Insurance; expanding actions that constitute unfair claims settlement practices; effective date.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor 04/19/2021. 2021-04-19
Location: US-OK
Title: Concerning nonmedicare plans offered through the Washington state health insurance pool.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-06
Last Action Date: Effective date 7/25/2021.. 2021-04-16
Location: US-WA
Title: Concerning audio-only telemedicine.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-21
Last Action Date: Effective date 7/25/2021.. 2021-04-16
Location: US-WA
Title: Relating to county authority to balance bill for county air ambulance services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-11
Last Action Date: Left pending in committee. 2021-04-15
Location: US-TX
Title: An Act Relating To Education -- Seizure Safe Schools Act (Requires Elementary/Secondary Schools To Have At Least 1 School Employee Trained To Administer/Assist With The Self-Administering Of Seizure Rescue Medication Prescribed To Treat Seizure Disorder Systems And The Use Of Prescribed Electrical Stimulation.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-05
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-04-14
Location: US-RI
Title: Relating to payment of health benefit claims in coordination with third-party liability insurance.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-20
Last Action Date: Left pending in committee. 2021-04-13
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to utilization review of emergency care claims under health benefit plans.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-22
Last Action Date: Left pending in committee. 2021-04-13
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to deceptive marketing of certain health plans, programs, and arrangements; authorizing an administrative penalty.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-23
Last Action Date: Left pending in committee. 2021-04-13
Location: US-TX
Title: Greater Transparency in Health Care Billing.
Current Status: In Senate
Introduction Date: 2021-03-30
Last Action Date: Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Commerce and Insurance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate. 2021-04-13
Location: US-NC
Title: Establishes procedures to fix rates for certain health care goods and services. (BDR 40-786)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-22
Last Action Date: (Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.). 2021-04-10
Description: AN ACT relating to health care; establishing procedures for fixing the rates charged by hospitals, independent centers for emergency medical care, surgical centers for ambulatory patients and physicians for certain goods and services; authorizing the imposition of a civil penalty and initiation of disciplinary action against such a facility or a physician who fails to comply with provisions concerning rate fixing; creating certain causes of action to enforce those provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Location: US-NV
Title: TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "Medicaid Buy-In Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-04
Last Action Date: Sponsor(s) Added.. 2021-04-08
Location: US-TN
Title: An Act To Allow Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists To Bill for Their Services
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-27
Last Action Date: Signed by the Governor. 2021-04-07
Location: US-ME
Title: Medical assistance postpartum coverage extended.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Authors added Hassan, Keeler, and Bahner. 2021-04-06
Location: US-MN
Title: Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, clarifies that, except when dealing with an assignment of benefits to a healthcare provider, the rights, duties, or benefits provided by a policy of insurance may be assigned only as expressly provided by the terms of the policy of insurance or as otherwise expressly allowed by the insurer. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-102.
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-02-11
Last Action Date: Effective date(s) 03/29/2021. 2021-04-06
Location: US-TN
Title: Relating to disclosure requirements for accident and health coverage and health expense arrangements marketed to individuals.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-04-01
Location: US-TX
Title: Insurance; expanding actions constituting unfair claims settlement practices. Effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Title restored. 2021-04-01
Location: US-OK
Title: Relating to a health care entity's disclosure to patients and prospective patients of charges for certain health care services, goods, or procedures; authorizing administrative penalties.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-04-01
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the deductible imposed by a health benefit plan issuer for covered health care services or supplies.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-04-01
Location: US-TX
Title: LB337 - Adopt the Step-Therapy Reform Act
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-01-13
Last Action Date: Approved by Governor on March 31, 2021. 2021-03-31
Location: US-NE
Title: Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires the state group insurance plan, starting in the 2022 plan year, to have an alternate allowable charges schedule to allow enrollees to utilize the services of any licensed medical provider in the United States without being penalized with out-of-network cost sharing charges, except as provided in the schedule, and to have a preferred tier and non-preferred tier. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 56.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-10
Last Action Date: Def. to Summer Study in Public Service Subcommittee. 2021-03-31
Location: US-TN
Title: Essential Health Benefits/Assoc. Health Plans.
Current Status: In Senate
Introduction Date: 2021-03-30
Last Action Date: Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate. 2021-03-31
Location: US-NC
Title: An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions -- License Of Naturopathy Act (Changes The Name Of Doctor Of Naturopathy To Naturopathic Doctor And Permit Them To Administer Ivs, Perform Phlebotomy, And Consult, But Not Change, Patient’S Prescription Medication.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-30
Location: US-RI
Title: Relating to health benefit plan coverage in this state.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Insurance. 2021-03-29
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to a cardiac arrest registry for information on the incidence and causes of cardiac arrest among certain persons; providing an administrative penalty.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-11
Last Action Date: Referred to Public Health. 2021-03-29
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to information regarding perinatal palliative care.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Public Health. 2021-03-29
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to establishing an assistance program to provide certain health care services to certain medically fragile children.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Human Services. 2021-03-29
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to civil liability arising from COVID-19.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence. 2021-03-29
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to certain group health care benefits and the promotion of telehealth services for certain persons who are eligible for Medicaid or the child health plan program.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-11
Last Action Date: Referred to Health & Human Services. 2021-03-26
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to improvements to access to health care in this state, including increased access to and scope of coverage under health benefit plans and Medicaid, and to improvements in health outcomes; authorizing an assessment; imposing penalties.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-03-26
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the issuance of temporary licenses for certain out-of-state health care practitioners for a charitable purpose.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Health & Human Services. 2021-03-26
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the creation of the Texas Health Insurance Exchange and an exchange reinsurance program.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-12
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-03-26
Location: US-TX
Title: An Act To Establish the COVID-19 Patient Bill of Rights and To Amend the Governor's Emergency Powers
Current Status: Enacted
Introduction Date: 2021-03-11
Last Action Date: Became Law without Governor's Signature (Emergency Measure). 2021-03-25
Location: US-ME
Title: Personal care assistance agency enrollment requirements established, personal care assistant and qualified professional additional duties established, personal care assistance service payment rate methodology established, commissioner of human services required to study methodology, providers required to submit workforce data, and reports required.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-04
Last Action Date: Author added Bierman. 2021-03-25
Location: US-MN
Title: Health care providers required to obtain direct secure messaging address.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-25
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy. 2021-03-25
Location: US-MN
Title: Emergency medical services regulatory board occupations certification requirements modification
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Author added Draheim. 2021-03-24
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Covid-19 Pandemic Insurance Recovery Act (Allows Businesses That Had An Insurance Policy In Place For Business Interruption As Of March 9, 2019 To Recover From Their Insurance Companies For A Covid-19 Business Impact.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-23
Location: US-RI
Title: Medical assistance postpartum coverage extension
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-08
Last Action Date: Author added Putnam. 2021-03-22
Location: US-MN
Title: Affordable Care Act provisions codified, guaranteed issue required of individual health plans offered by health plan companies to Minnesota residents, and unfair discriminatory practices prohibited.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-11
Last Action Date: Author added Bierman. 2021-03-22
Location: US-MN
Title: Timely provider credentialing by health plan company requirements established.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-04
Last Action Date: Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Health Finance and Policy. 2021-03-18
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Covid-19 Pandemic Insurance Recovery Act (Allows Businesses That Had An Insurance Policy In Place For Business Interruption As Of March 9, 2019 To Recover From Their Insurance Companies For A Covid-19 Business Impact.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-25
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-18
Location: US-RI
Title: Relating to the definition of emergency care for purposes of certain health benefit plans.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-04
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-03-18
Location: US-TX
Title: Patient medical bill information requirements modified, and health care price transparency requirements established.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-18
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce Finance and Policy. 2021-03-18
Location: US-MN
Title: Patient medical bill information requirements modification; health care price transparency requirements establishment
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-15
Last Action Date: Author added Benson. 2021-03-17
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies (Provides Health Care Coverage For Laparoscopic Removal Of Uterine Fibroids, Including Intraoperative Ultrasound Guidance And Monitoring And Radiofrequency Ablation, Commencing January 1, 2022.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-16
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies -- Step Therapy Protocols (Requires Health Insurers That Issue Prescription Drug Coverage To Use Step Therapy Protocols.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-16
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions -- Confidentiality Of Health Care Communications And Information Act (Allows An Ordering Physician To Obtain The Result Of Any Life Threatening Clinical Laboratory Test, Without The Need For A Consent To Release Medical Information.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-16
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government -- The Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act Of 2004--Health Insurance Oversight (Requires The Health Insurance Commissioner To Adopt A Uniform Set Of Medical Criteria For Prior Authorization And Create A Required Form To Be Used By A Health Insurer.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-16
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance - Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies (Requires Prompt Processing And Payment Of Medicaid Claims Within Fifteen (15) Calendar Days Of Receipt With Interest For Failure To Notify Providers Or Policyholders Of Denied Or Pending Claims. Effective 1/1/2022.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-16
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Business And Professions - Lyme Disease Diagnosis And Treatment (Requires Insurers Insures To Provide Coverage For Any Prescription Drug Treatment For Lyme Disease.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-16
Location: US-RI
Title: Mental health services provisions modifications
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-15
Last Action Date: Author added Dornink. 2021-03-15
Location: US-MN
Title: Relating to the provision and delivery of certain health, mental health, and educational services in this state, including the delivery of those services using telecommunications or information technology.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-22
Last Action Date: Referred to Public Health. 2021-03-15
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to a state of disaster declared by the governor because of COVID-19.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-22
Last Action Date: Referred to State Affairs. 2021-03-15
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the state reserve of personal protective equipment for health care workers and essential personnel.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-22
Last Action Date: Referred to Public Health. 2021-03-15
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to the state reserve of personal protective equipment for health care workers and essential personnel.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Referred to Public Health. 2021-03-15
Location: US-TX
Title: Telehealth provisions modifications
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-15
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-03-15
Location: US-MN
Title: Reference-based pricing health plans offered by health carriers authorization
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-15
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-03-15
Location: US-MN
Title: Health carriers allowed to offer reference-based pricing health plans.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-15
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce Finance and Policy. 2021-03-15
Location: US-MN
Title: Relating to the provision of counseling services by certain providers under Medicaid and reimbursement for those services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-01
Last Action Date: Referred to Health & Human Services. 2021-03-11
Location: US-TX
Title: "An Act requiring the state medical assistance program to provide services; relating to cost containment of the state medical assistance program; relating to payment for adult dental services; and providing for an effective date."
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: (H) Minutes (HSTA). 2021-03-09
Location: US-AK
Title: An Act Relating To Health And Safety -- Treatment For Patients With Terminal Illness -- The Neil Fachon Terminally Ill Patients' Right To Try Act Of 2021 (Creates The "Neil Fachon Terminally Ill Patients' Right To Try Act Of 2021," Which Establishes The Conditions For The Use Of Experimental Treatments For Terminally Ill Patients.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-22
Last Action Date: Referred to Senate Health and Human Services. 2021-03-09
Location: US-RI
Title: Relating to the provision and delivery of certain health, mental health, and educational services in this state, including the delivery of those services using telecommunications or information technology.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-26
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-03-09
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to availability of and benefits provided under health benefit plan coverage.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-26
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-03-09
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to health benefit plan coverage of preexisting conditions including COVID-19.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-26
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-03-09
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to a limit on cost-sharing requirements imposed by a health benefit plan for certain prescription insulin.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-08
Last Action Date: Referred to Insurance. 2021-03-09
Location: US-TX
Title: Medical practices required to make their current standard charges public, and commissioner of health authorized to establish price comparison tool for medical practice items and services.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-11
Last Action Date: Author added Gruenhagen. 2021-03-08
Location: US-MN
Title: Unrestricted access to services for the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases requirement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Author added Isaacson. 2021-03-08
Location: US-MN
Title: Health plans prohibited from limiting opioid testing.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-04
Last Action Date: Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Health Finance and Policy. 2021-03-08
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies (Requires That A Participant Or Beneficiary Incur No Greater Out-Of-Pocket Costs For Emergency Services Than They Would Have Incurred With An In-Network Provider Other Than In-Network Cost Sharing.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-10
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-08
Location: US-RI
Title: An Act Relating To Health And Safety -- Comprehensive Health Insurance Program (Establishes A Universal, Comprehensive, Affordable Single-Payer Health Care Insurance Program Which Shall Be Referred To As, "The Rhode Island Comprehensive Health Insurance Program" (Richip))
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-10
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-04
Location: US-RI
Title: Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board grants to regional medical services programs appropriation
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-04
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-03-04
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Individual Health Insurance Coverage (Requires Individual Health Insurers, Large Group Health Insurers And Small Employer Health Insurers To Provide Coverage For Ten (10) Categories Of Essential Health Benefits Listed In The Act.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-04
Last Action Date: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services. 2021-03-04
Location: US-RI
Title: Relating to a limit on cost-sharing requirements imposed by a health benefit plan for certain prescription insulin.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-09
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-03-03
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to coverage for serious mental illness under certain group health benefit plans.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-09
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-03-03
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to a limit on cost-sharing requirements imposed by a health benefit plan for certain prescription insulin.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-10
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-03-03
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to health benefit plan coverage of epinephrine auto-injectors for certain individuals.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-04
Last Action Date: Referred to Business & Commerce. 2021-03-03
Location: US-TX
Title: An Act amending the act of July 19, 1979 (P.L.130, No.48), known as the Health Care Facilities Act, in preliminary provisions, reenacting and amending provisions relating to definitions; in powers and duties of the department, reenacting and amending provisions relating to powers and duties of the department; in Statewide Health Coordinating Council and health systems agencies, reenacting and amending provisions relating to State health services plan; in administration of the act, reenacting provisions relating to regulations and reenacting and amending provisions relating to enforcement of orders relating to certificate of need; in certificate of need, reenacting and amending provisions relating to certificate of need required and clinically related health services subject to review, to certificates of need and notice of intent and application and issuance and to notice and hearings before health systems agencies, reenacting provisions relating to notice of public meetings and to good cause, reenacting and amending provisions relating to information during review, to criteria for review of applications for certificates of need or amendments and to monitoring certificate of need, expiration of a certificate of need and reenacting provisions relating to emergencies and reenacting and amending provisions relating to notice of termination of services, to review of activities and to actions against violations of law and rules and regulations and bonds; in licensing of health care facilities, reenacting and amending provisions relating to issuance of license; in general provisions and repeals and effective date, reenacting and amending provisions relating to existing facilities and institutions and to fees for review of certificate of need applications and repealing provisions relating to sunset.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-03
Last Action Date: Referred to HEALTH. 2021-03-03
Location: US-PA
Title: Relating to the provision of comprehensive health care benefits coverage through a publicly funded program to be known as the Healthy Texas Program; authorizing a fee.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-18
Last Action Date: Referred to Insurance. 2021-03-01
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to health benefit plan coverage of preexisting conditions.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-10
Last Action Date: Referred to Insurance. 2021-03-01
Location: US-TX
Title: Commissioner of human services directed to establish prescription drug purchasing program, and program authority and eligibility requirements specified.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-07
Last Action Date: Author added Carlson. 2021-03-01
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Insurance Coverage For Mental Illness And Substance Abuse (Requires A Health Plan To Cover Clinically Appropriate And Medically Necessary Residential Or Inpatient Services, Including Detoxification And Stabilization Services, For The Treatment Of Mental Health And Substance Use Disorders.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-29
Last Action Date: Committee recommended measure be held for further study. 2021-03-01
Location: US-RI
Title: Minnesota Health Plan establishment and appropriation
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-01
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-03-01
Location: US-MN
Title: Minnesota Health Plan establishment and appropriation
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-01
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-03-01
Location: US-MN
Title: Minnesota Health Plan establishment and appropriation
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-01
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-03-01
Location: US-MN
Title: Minnesota Health Plan establishment and appropriation
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-01
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-03-01
Location: US-MN
Title: Minnesota Health Plan establishment and appropriation
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-03-01
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-03-01
Location: US-MN
Title: Relating to pricing of and health benefit plan cost-sharing requirements for prescription insulin.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-09
Last Action Date: Referred to Insurance. 2021-02-25
Location: US-TX
Title: Relating to establishing a program designed to ensure health benefit plan coverage to certain children through the private marketplace.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-11-09
Last Action Date: Referred to Human Services. 2021-02-25
Location: US-TX
Title: All-payer claims database data submission and use provisions modified, and commissioner of health recommendations required regarding data use by outside entities.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-11
Last Action Date: Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Health Finance and Policy. 2021-02-25
Location: US-MN
Title: Health care providers timely credentialing requirements
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-08
Last Action Date: Second reading. 2021-02-25
Location: US-MN
Title: Regards prescription drugs and medication switching
Current Status: In House
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: Referred to committee Insurance. 2021-02-25
Description: To amend sections 3902.50, 3902.60, and 3902.70 and to enact section 3902.62 of the Revised Code regarding prescription drugs and medication switching.
Location: US-OH
Title: Mental Health; Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services; authority; requirement; definition; effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Authored by Senator Quinn (principal Senate author). 2021-02-24
Location: US-OK
Title: Health: diseases; website identifying certain risk levels for coronavirus for counties and regions in this state; establish or implement. Amends sec. 5145 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.5145) & adds sec. 5145b.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-23
Last Action Date: bill electronically reproduced 02/23/2021. 2021-02-24
Location: US-MI
Title: "An Act relating to the establishment of an all-payer health claims database; and providing for an effective date."
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-24
Last Action Date: (H) REFERRED TO LABOR & COMMERCE. 2021-02-24
Location: US-AK
Title: Insurance; health care services; provide good faith estimates
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: House Second Readers. 2021-02-22
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 31 and Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to health and insurance, respectively, so as to provide good faith estimates regarding the cost of health care services; to provide for definitions; to require health care providers to provide good faith estimates of costs and fees available to consumers upon request; to require health insurers to provide good faith estimates of costs available to consumers upon request; to provide for time limits; to prohibit the limitation of disclosure by contract; to provide for construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Health insurance benefit plan contracting provisions modified.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-22
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to State Government Finance and Elections. 2021-02-22
Location: US-MN
Title: Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board regional emergency medical service program grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-22
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy. 2021-02-22
Location: US-MN
Title: TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "Medicaid Buy-In Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-08
Last Action Date: Assigned to s/c Insurance Subcommittee. 2021-02-20
Location: US-TN
Title: Workers compensation claim based on COVID-19 presumption extension
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-18
Last Action Date: Referred to Labor and Industry Policy. 2021-02-18
Location: US-MN
Title: Prescription drug definition modified for state antikickback provision purposes.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Health Finance and Policy. 2021-02-15
Location: US-MN
Title: Cost-sharing requirements limited for first four outpatient mental health service visits.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Author added Bahner. 2021-02-15
Location: US-MN
Title: MinnesotaCare eligibility expansion; public option establishment; enrollee premiums modification; health care affordability for certain families modification; alternative delivery and payment system recommendations and plan implementation requirement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-15
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-02-15
Location: US-MN
Title: Department of health, operations, boards, councils, and ombudsman appropriations; health records, information exchange, radiation hazard application fees, infants tests, maternal and fetal morbidity, and asbestos abatement miscellaneous health policy changes
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-15
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-02-15
Location: US-MN
Title: Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires the state group insurance plan, starting in the 2022 plan year, to have an alternate allowable charges schedule to allow enrollees to utilize the services of any licensed medical provider in the United States without being penalized with out-of-network cost sharing charges, except as provided in the schedule, and to have a preferred tier and non-preferred tier. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 56.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-09
Last Action Date: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee. 2021-02-11
Location: US-TN
Title: Health insurance providers negotiated provider payment enrollee charge requirement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-11
Last Action Date: Referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy. 2021-02-11
Location: US-MN
Title: Human services: medical services; certain Medicaid reimbursement for treatment of alcohol use disorder; provide for. Amends sec. 109f of 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.109f).
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-10
Last Action Date: bill electronically reproduced 02/10/2021. 2021-02-11
Location: US-MI
Title: Department of Health, health operations, and health-related boards, councils, and ombudsman funding provided; changes made to electronic health records, health care information exchange, radiation, hazard application fees, tests for infants for medical conditions, maternal morbidity and death studies, fetal and infant death studies, and asbestos abatement; and money appropriated.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-11
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy. 2021-02-11
Location: US-MN
Title: Children and family services, community supports, direct care and treatment, health care, human services licensing and background studies, and chemical and mental health service provisions modified; forecast adjustments made; reports required; money transferred; technical and conforming changes made; and money appropriated.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-11
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-02-11
Location: US-MN
Title: Mandated health benefit proposals evaluation process modification
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-19
Last Action Date: Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy. 2021-02-04
Location: US-MN
Title: Health insurance; requiring insurer to pay out-of-network entities directly for services. Effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance. 2021-02-02
Location: US-OK
Title: An Act Relating To Insurance -- Individual Health Insurance Coverage (Requires Individual Health Insurers, Large Group Health Insurers And Small Employer Health Insurers To Provide Coverage For Ten (10) Categories Of Essential Health Benefits Listed In The Act.)
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-11
Last Action Date: Committee transferred to House Health & Human Services. 2021-02-02
Location: US-RI
Title: Insurance; health insurance; Oklahoma Surprise Billing Protection Act; effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Second Reading referred to Rules. 2021-02-02
Location: US-OK
Title: Health insurance; creating Oklahoma Health Insurance Mandate Legislation Act; providing requirements for mandates. Effective date.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-02-01
Last Action Date: Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance Committee then to Appropriations Committee. 2021-02-02
Location: US-OK
Title: An Act relative to transparency of consumer health insurance rights
Current Status: Status Currently Unavailable
Location: US-MA
Title: Mental Health Parity Act; enact
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-12-16
Last Action Date: House Second Readers. 2021-01-28
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurance generally, so as to require that insurer treatment of claims concerning mental and substance use disorders are treated in parity with other health insurance claims; to amend Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to public assistance, so as to require that care management organization treatment of claims concerning mental and substance use disorders are treated in parity with other Medicaid claims; to ensure that insurers and care management organizations comply with certain federal law; to provide for reporting; to provide for enforcement; to provide for definitions; to prohibit certain actions; to provide for applicability; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: Spoken language health care interpreters establishment and appropriation
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-01-28
Location: US-MN
Title: First four outpatient mental health service visits cost-sharing requirements limitation
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy. 2021-01-28
Location: US-MN
Title: An Act providing for health care insurance coverage protections, for duties of the Insurance Department and the Insurance Commissioner, for regulations, for enforcement and for penalties.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Referred to BANKING AND INSURANCE. 2021-01-28
Location: US-PA
Title: Opioid prescribing work group membership expanded.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-28
Last Action Date: Introduction and first reading, referred to Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-01-28
Location: US-MN
Title: Medical practices to make available to the public their current standard charges requirement; health department price comparison tool for items and services offered by medical practices requirement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: Author added Duckworth. 2021-01-25
Location: US-MN
Title: Pharmacist dispensing of HIV preexposure prophylaxis and HIV postexposure prophylaxis without a prescription authorization
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-25
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-01-25
Location: US-MN
Title: Health plan companies shared savings incentive program development and implementation requirement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-21
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-01-21
Location: US-MN
Title: SC Medicaid Buy-In Act
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-12-16
Last Action Date: Member(s) request name added as sponsor: J.L.Johnson. 2021-01-14
Description: A Bill To Amend The Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, To Enact The "South Carolina Medicaid Buy-In Act" By Adding Article 10 To Chapter 6, Title 44 So As To Establish A Medicaid Buy-In Program To Provide Quality, Affordable Health Insurance For Certain Residents Of The State.
Location: US-SC
Title: Submission of data to and use of data in all-payer claim database provisions modification; commissioner of health recommendations regarding the use of data by outside entities requirement
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-14
Last Action Date: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy. 2021-01-14
Location: US-MN
Title: Hearing aids
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-12-09
Last Action Date: Referred to Committee on Banking and Insurance (Senate Journal-page 212). 2021-01-12
Description: A Bill To Amend The Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, By Adding Section 38-71-48 So As To Provide Definitions, To Require All Health Insurance And Group Health Benefit Plans To Cover Hearing Aids And Replacement Hearing Aids For Insureds With Impaired Hearing, And To Provide For The Scope Of Coverage, Among Other Things.
Location: US-SC
Title: Insurance and health care providers
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-12-09
Last Action Date: Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry (House Journal-page 183). 2021-01-12
Description: A Bill To Amend The Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, By Adding Section 38-71-292 So As To Prohibit Insurers And Health Care Providers From Engaging In Surprise Billing; And By Adding Section 39-5-45 So As To Make It An Unfair Trade Practice For An Insurer Or Health Care Provider To Engage In The Practice Of Surprise Billing.
Location: US-SC
Title: Insurance and health care providers
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-12-09
Last Action Date: Referred to Committee on Banking and Insurance (Senate Journal-page 261). 2021-01-12
Description: A Bill To Amend The Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, By Adding Section 38-71-292 So As To Prohibit Insurers And Health Care Providers From Engaging In Surprise Billing; And By Adding Section 39-5-45 So As To Make It An Unfair Trade Practice For An Insurer Or Health Care Provider To Engage In The Practice Of Surprise Billing.
Location: US-SC
Title: Georgia All-Payer Claims Database; entities that receive certain tax credits; self-funded, employer sponsored health insurance plans are submitting entities; provide
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2021-01-12
Last Action Date: Senate Read and Referred. 2021-01-12
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-53-40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to the Georgia All-Payer Claims Database, so as to provide that entities that receive certain tax credits and that provide self-funded, employer sponsored health insurance plans are submitting entities; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA
Title: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-12-18
Last Action Date: Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House. 2020-12-18
Description: This bill requires that inadvertent out-of-network services be included in individual and group health insurance policies as well as group and blank health insurance policies. This bill defines inadvertent out-of-network services are those services that are covered under a policy or contract of health insurances, but are provided by an out-of-network provider in an in-network facility, or when in-network health care services are unavailable or not made available to the insured in the facility. Inadvertent out-of-network services also includes laboratory testing ordered by an in-network provider but performed by an out-of-network laboratory.
Location: US-DE
Title: Health Benefit Plan Network Access and Adequacy Act; enact
Current Status: Sine Die - Failed
Introduction Date: 2020-12-02
Last Action Date: House Prefiled. 2020-12-02
Description: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurance, so as to increase consumer access to health care by improving network adequacy; to provide for the inclusion of a consumer "hold harmless" provision; to provide that under certain circumstances, health carriers shall charge for out-of-network services at in-network rates; to provide for a requirement that carriers file network adequacy plans with the department; to provide for a requirement that health carriers notify providers on an ongoing basis of the specific covered health care services for which the provider is responsible; to provide for a standard continuity of care authorization form proscribed by the Commissioner; to provide for an advisory committee for advising on standard continuity of care; to provide for effective dates; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Location: US-GA