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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1479
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 5687
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT CONCERNING ARBITRATION AND HEALTH CARE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2025) (a) As used in this section, 1
(1) "health care provider" has the same meaning as provided in section 2
19a-17b of the general statutes, and (2) "mandatory arbitration clause" 3
means a clause in a health care provider agreement with a patient 4
requiring the patient to submit to mandatory arbitration to resolve a 5
billing dispute. 6
(b) On and after October 1, 2025, the Commissioner of Social Services 7
shall require that a health care provider not use mandatory arbitration 8
clauses in health care provider agreements with any patient as a 9
condition of Medicaid reimbursement for providing health care 10
services. 11
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2025 New section
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Statement of Purpose:
To prohibit health care providers from receiving Medicaid
reimbursement if they require consumers to use mandatory arbitration
for billing disputes.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]