Louisiana 2014 2014 Regular Session

Louisiana House Bill HCR203 Comm Sub / Analysis

                    DIGEST
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Greene	HCR No. 203
Urges and requests the Department of Insurance (DOI) to conduct a study of  the issue of the
extent of coverage of state residents enrolled in individual or employer-sponsored health benefit
plans, the proliferation of benefit plans containing high enrollee cost-sharing provisions, and the
effects of those plans on enrollees and providers relative to the ability of enrollees to meet those
obligations and the amounts that are left as unpaid, as well as the process and timing involved
with patients and providers obtaining health benefit deductible accumulation and the timing of
claims payment and deductible accumulation within health benefit plans. Further requires DOI to
report findings and recommendations to the legislative committees on insurance on or before Jan.
1, 2015.