Bill Text: CT SB00316 | 2017 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut Senate Bill 316 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Requiring A Study Regarding Referrals By Health Care Providers To Certain Health Care Facilities.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-06-07 - House Calendar Number 660 [SB00316 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-SB00316-Comm_Sub.html


General Assembly		*Committee Bill No. 316*
*January Session, 2017*		LCO No. 5449
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)

AN ACT REQUIRING A STUDY REGARDING REFERRALS BY HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TO CERTAIN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) The Health Care Cabinet, established pursuant to section 19a-725 of the general statutes, in collaboration with any other state entity, may study the current status and regulation of a health care provider who refers a patient to a health care facility in which such provider or an immediate family member of such provider owns a beneficial interest or with which such provider or immediate family member has a compensation arrangement.

(b) At the conclusion of any such study, the Health Care Cabinet may submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health concerning the results of such study. Such report may include, but need not be limited to, recommendations for legislation to establish a regulatory framework for referrals by a health care provider to health care entities in which such provider or an immediate family member of such provider owns a beneficial interest or with which such provider or immediate family member has a compensation arrangement.