General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6015
January Session, 2017 LCO No. 2319
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. RYAN, 139th Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 6015
January Session, 2017
LCO No. 2319
*02319*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. RYAN, 139th Dist.
AN ACT PROTECTING PATIENTS AGAINST SURPRISE OUT-OF-NETWORK MEDICAL BILLS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to require certain health care providers, insurers and health maintenance organizations to provide patients with access to health care price and health care quality information by the following methods: (1) Creating pretreatment transparency obligations for hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, health care practitioners providing nonemergency services in such facilities, insurers and health maintenance organizations, (2) posting on the entity's Internet web sites of the average payments and payment ranges received for bundles of health care services defined by the American Health Care Association, (3) providing written, good-faith personalized estimates of charges upon request, (4) publishing information regarding financial assistance policies and procedures, (5) creating online methods for patients to estimate out-of-pocket expenses, (6) publishing by diagnostic imaging centers owned by a hospital but located off of the hospital premises of charges for services, and (7) providing an itemized bill to a patient not later than seven days after discharge or request for such bill.
Statement of Purpose:
To protect patients against surprise out-of-network medical bills.