Arizona 2025 2025 Regular Session

Arizona House Bill HB2874 Engrossed / Bill

Filed 02/27/2025

                    House Engrossed   excessive health insurance claims; notification             State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025           HOUSE BILL 2874                    AN ACT   amending title 20, chapter 2, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 20-466.06; relating to the transaction of insurance business.     (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)   

 

 

 

House Engrossed   excessive health insurance claims; notification
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
HOUSE BILL 2874

House Engrossed

 

excessive health insurance claims; notification

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL 2874

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending title 20, chapter 2, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 20-466.06; relating to the transaction of insurance business.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Title 20, chapter 2, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 20-466.06, to read: START_STATUTE20-466.06. Health care providers; property insurers; casualty insurers; excessive health care claims; notification; definitions A. If a health insurer notices a trend in the number of health care insurance claims that are filed by a health care provider for services provided to patients on any given workday exceeds the number of patients that the health care provider could reasonably be expected to treat on that given workday, the health insurer shall notify the department and the board that licenses, registers or certifies the health care provider. B. If a property or casualty insurer notices claims activities that SUGGEST possible insurance or health care fraud, the property or casualty insurer shall notify the department and the applicable board that licenses, registers or certifies the health care provider. C. For the purposes of this section: 1. "Health care provider" means a person who is licensed, registered or certified as a health care professional under title 32. 2. "Health insurer" means a disability insurer, group disability insurer, blanket disability insurer, health care services organization, hospital service corporation or medical service corporation. END_STATUTE 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 20, chapter 2, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 20-466.06, to read:

START_STATUTE20-466.06. Health care providers; property insurers; casualty insurers; excessive health care claims; notification; definitions

A. If a health insurer notices a trend in the number of health care insurance claims that are filed by a health care provider for services provided to patients on any given workday exceeds the number of patients that the health care provider could reasonably be expected to treat on that given workday, the health insurer shall notify the department and the board that licenses, registers or certifies the health care provider.

B. If a property or casualty insurer notices claims activities that SUGGEST possible insurance or health care fraud, the property or casualty insurer shall notify the department and the applicable board that licenses, registers or certifies the health care provider.

C. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Health care provider" means a person who is licensed, registered or certified as a health care professional under title 32.

2. "Health insurer" means a disability insurer, group disability insurer, blanket disability insurer, health care services organization, hospital service corporation or medical service corporation. END_STATUTE