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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 2323 By: Frix
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to insurance; prohibiting insurers
from making certain policy benefit changes without a
policyholder's written agreement; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 6 057.6 of Title 36, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Any insurer issuing health benefit plans in this state shall no t
make material changes to a policy benefit, including the removal of
a patient's provider from his or her network co ntract, at any time
during which the policy is in force, except in the case of medical
malpractice, billing and collections practices in violation of the
provider agreement, or a violation of ethical standards as set forth
by statute or by the provider's licensing body, without the express
written agreement of the policyholder.
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SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-6808 AB 12/14/20