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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 497 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 482 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 497 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. ANWAR, 3rd Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT CONCERNING HOSPITAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. | |
| 19 | 19 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 20 | 20 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 22 | 22 | That the general statutes be amended to (1) require the Healthcare 1 | |
| 23 | 23 | Advocate to develop an online hospital financial assistance portal for 2 | |
| 24 | 24 | patients and their family members, (2) allow the Healthcare Advocate 3 | |
| 25 | 25 | to post information regarding the state's medical debt erasure initiative 4 | |
| 26 | 26 | on the Office of the Healthcare Advocate's Internet web site, and (3) 5 | |
| 27 | 27 | require each hospital that maintains a financial assistance program to 6 | |
| 28 | 28 | provide the Healthcare Advocate with the link to the Internet web site 7 | |
| 29 | 29 | relating to such program, if applicable. 8 | |
| 30 | 30 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 31 | 31 | To promote the awareness and use of hospital financial assistance | |
| 32 | 32 | programs and the state's medical debt erasure initiative. |