STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

SENATE BILL 30	By:	Wilson

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to health outcomes; directing the Division of Health Care Information within the State Department of Health to make certain annual evaluation; limiting certain charges in specified situation; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-118.1 of Title 63, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  The Division of Health Care Information within the State Department of Health shall annually evaluate whether or not there is a variance in health outcomes between the insured and the uninsured patients of each hospital in the state.
B.  If the Division finds that the health outcomes of the uninsured patients of a hospital are statistically worse than the health outcomes of the insured patients of the hospital, the hospital shall be prohibited from charging any patient more than one hundred twenty percent (120%) of the current Medicare reimbursement rates for a period of one year.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

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