| 1 | 1 | | Session of 2025 |
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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE BILL No. 2286 |
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| 3 | 3 | | By Committee on Health and Human Services |
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| 4 | 4 | | Requested by Representative Reavis on behalf of the Kansas Dental Association |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to dental benefit plans; providing |
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| 7 | 7 | | for the use of alternative forms of payment; amending K.S.A. 2024 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Supp. 40-2,227 and repealing the existing section. |
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| 9 | 9 | | Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: |
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| 10 | 10 | | Section 1. K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 40-2,227 is hereby amended to read as |
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| 11 | 11 | | follows: 40-2,227. (a) No dental benefit plan shall contain restrictions on |
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| 12 | 12 | | methods of payment to a dentist from the dental benefit plan, such plan's |
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| 13 | 13 | | contracted vendor or health maintenance organization in which the only |
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| 14 | 14 | | acceptable payment method is a credit card payment. |
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| 15 | 15 | | (b) If initiating or changing payments to a dentist using electronic |
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| 16 | 16 | | funds transfer payments, including virtual credit card payments, a dental |
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| 17 | 17 | | benefit plan, such plan's contracted vendor or health maintenance |
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| 18 | 18 | | organization shall: |
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| 19 | 19 | | (1) Notify the dentist if any fees are associated with a particular |
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| 20 | 20 | | payment method; and |
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| 21 | 21 | | (2) advise the dentist of the available methods of payment and |
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| 22 | 22 | | provide clear instructions to the dentist as to how to select an alternative |
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| 23 | 23 | | payment method; and |
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| 24 | 24 | | (3) require that any decision by a dentist to select an alternative form |
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| 25 | 25 | | of payment shall remain in force through the duration of the contract and |
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| 26 | 26 | | any extension thereof. |
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| 27 | 27 | | (c) A dental benefit plan, such plan's contracted vendor or health |
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| 28 | 28 | | maintenance organization that initiates or changes payments to a dentist |
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| 29 | 29 | | through the automated clearing house network, as codified in 45 C.F.R. §§ |
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| 30 | 30 | | 162.1601 and 162.1602, as in effect on July 1, 2025, shall not charge a fee |
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| 31 | 31 | | solely to transmit the payment to a dentist unless the dentist has consented |
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| 32 | 32 | | to such fee. A dentist's agent may charge reasonable fees when |
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| 33 | 33 | | transmitting an automated clearing house network payment related to |
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| 34 | 34 | | transaction management, data management, portal services and other |
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| 35 | 35 | | value-added services in addition to the bank transmittal. |
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| 36 | 36 | | (d) The provisions of this section shall not be waived by contract. |
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| 37 | 37 | | Any contractual arrangement in conflict that conflicts with the provisions |
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| 38 | 38 | | of this section or that purports to waive any requirements of this section |
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| 39 | 39 | | shall be null and void and unenforceable. |
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| 74 | 74 | | 35 HB 2286 2 |
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| 75 | 75 | | Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 40-2,227 is hereby repealed. |
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| 76 | 76 | | Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its |
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| 77 | 77 | | publication in the statute book. |
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