Bill Text: NJ A2652 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires forms for informed consent for health care to be separate from forms related to assignment of insurance benefits or financial arrangements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-13 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Committee [A2652 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A2652-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2652

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 13, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires forms for informed consent for health care to be separate from forms related to assignment of insurance benefits or financial arrangements.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning forms for informed consent and supplementing Titles 26 and 45 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    A hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.), when seeking informed consent for a procedure or treatment from a patient, shall provide the patient with a form for giving the consent that is separate from a form that is required for signature by the patient and related to an assignment of an insurance benefit or financial arrangement for payment for the procedure or treatment.

 

     2.    A health care professional licensed pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes, when seeking informed consent for a procedure or treatment from a patient, shall provide the patient with a form for giving the consent that is separate from a form that is required for signature by the patient and related to an assignment of an insurance benefit or financial arrangement for payment for the procedure or treatment.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month next following the date of enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires hospitals and health care professionals, when seeking informed consent for a procedure or treatment from a patient, to provide the patient with a form for giving informed consent for the procedure or treatment that is separate from a form that is required for signature by the patient and related to an assignment of an insurance benefit or financial arrangement for payment for the procedure or treatment.