Maryland House Bill 1081 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: Introduced on February 6 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-03-09 - Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring a hospital to annually submit a report to the Health Services Cost Review Commission on the total number of patients by race or ethnicity, gender, and zip code against whom the hospital has filed an action to collect a debt, or to whom the hospital has and has not reported or classified a bad debt, and the total amount of costs owed but not collected; requiring that a certain policy provide a mechanism to a patient to modify a payment plan and prohibit the hospital from collecting a certain debt for a certain patient; etc.

Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection

Del. Lorig Charkoudian [D]	Del. Charlotte Crutchfield [D]	Del. Diana Fennell [D]	Sen. Ariana Kelly [D]
Del. Mary Lehman [D]	Del. Brooke Lierman [D]	Del. Sheila Ruth [D]	Del. Emily Shetty [D]
Del. Jared Solomon [D]	Del. Jen Terrasa [D]	Del. Veronica Turner [D]	Del. Pat Young [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-09	House	Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
2020-02-11	House	Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-02-06	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations

SB873 (Crossfiled) 2020-03-06 - Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Health - General	19	214.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB1081?ys=2020RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1081f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/hb1081_hgo.pdf