Mississippi House Bill 820

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 5 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Create An Independent Dispute Resolution Process For Situations When A Large Health Insurer And A Large Health System Enter Into Contract Negotiations, And Those Negotiations Result In The Large Health System No Longer Being Within The Large Health Insurer's Network, And The Commissioner Of Insurance Finds That Such Exclusion Will Result In A Large Number Of Covered Persons Not Having Accessible Health Care Services Within A Geographic Area, Or A Large Number Of Covered Persons Not Having Reasonable Access To Covered Benefits Resulting In The Covered Persons Having To Receive Those Services Out Of Their Geographic Area, Or The Large Health System Is Considered An Essential Community Provider And The Exclusion Of The Large Health System Will Result In Significant Harm To Mississippi Citizens; To Provide Definition; To Authorize The Commissioner Of Insurance To Order The Parties To Attempt To Resolve The Dispute Through Mediation; To Provide The Procedure For The Mediation; To Provide That If The Mediation Is Unsuccessful, The Governor May Order That The Dispute Be Determined By Binding Arbitration; To Provide The Procedure For The Arbitration; And For Related Purposes.

Independent dispute resolution; create for certain situations between large health insurers and large health systems.

Rep. Jerry Turner [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-05	House	Died In Committee
2024-01-31	House	Referred To Insurance

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/history/HB/HB0820.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0820IN.htm