Bill Text: PA HB1471 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for prompt payment to health care providers of clean claims.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 39-14)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-05 - Referred to INSURANCE [HB1471 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1471-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1778
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1471 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY DENLINGER, BOYD, WATSON, BOBACK, BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CLYMER, CONKLIN, D. COSTA, DAVIDSON, DAVIS, EVERETT, FLECK, GEIST, GILLEN, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GROVE, HESS, HICKERNELL, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, KAVULICH, M. K. KELLER, KNOWLES, KULA, LONGIETTI, MAJOR, MARSHALL, MASSER, MILLER, MILNE, MOUL, MURT, OBERLANDER, O'NEILL, PAYNE, QUINN, RAPP, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROAE, ROCK, SCAVELLO, SCHRODER, STABACK, TALLMAN, TAYLOR, VULAKOVICH AND WAGNER, MAY 5, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, MAY 5, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An
act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and
consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of
insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and
protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds
associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and
fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and
supervision of insurance carried by such companies,
associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by
the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and
repealing existing laws," further providing for prompt
payment to health care providers of clean claims.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2166(a) of the act of May 17, 1921
(P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921,
added June 17, 1998 (P.L.464, No.68), is amended to read:
Section 2166. Prompt Payment of Claims.--(a) A licensed
insurer or a managed care plan shall pay a clean claim submitted
by a health care provider within forty-five (45) days of receipt
of the clean claim[.] and where the clean claim involves
services provided by a licensed ambulance service and is paid in
the form of a negotiable instrument, the negotiable instrument
shall be made payable solely to the licensed ambulance service
for such services and notice of the payment shall be provided by
the licensed insurer or managed care plan to the insured or
subscriber.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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