VA SB752 | 2016 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 22 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-01 - Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Summary

Health insurance provider contracts; accepting enrollees as patients. Requires certain contracts between a health insurance carrier and a provider of health care services to include provisions that prohibit a participating provider from (i) refusing or declining to accept an enrollee who has sustained an injury as a patient or (ii) refusing or declining to provide covered services to an enrollee who has sustained an injury on the basis of the mechanism of the injury sustained by the enrollee. The State Corporation Commission shall not have jurisdiction to adjudicate individual controversies arising out of this measure.

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Title

Health insurance provider contracts; accepting enrollees as patients.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2016-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2016-02-01SenateContinued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N)
2016-01-22SenateReferred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2016-01-22SenatePresented and ordered printed 16100576D

Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
3823407.15:4(n/a)See Bill Text

Virginia State Sources


Bill Comments

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