Mississippi House Bill 578 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 13 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-02-13 - Died On Calendar
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

An Act To Create New Section 83-9-353, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Health Insurance Plans In This State To Provide Coverage And Reimbursement For Store And Forward Telemedicine Services And Remote Patient Monitoring Services And Provide Reimbursement For Store And For Word Telemedicine Services To The Same Extent That The Services Would Be Reimbursed If They Were Provided Through In-person Consultation; To Define "store And Forward Telemedicine Services" And "remote Patient Monitoring Services"; To Amend Section 25-15-9, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Preceding Provisions; To Bring Forward Sections 83-9-351 And 41-127-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purposes Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.

Store & forward telemedicine services; health insurance plans must provide coverage to same extent as in-person services.

Rep. Jeffrey Smith [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-13	House	Died On Calendar
2014-01-30	House	Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub
2014-01-20	House	Referred To Insurance

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/history/HB/HB0578.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0578IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0578CS.htm