Virginia Senate Joint Resolution 57 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-02-09 - Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Study; JLARC; balance billing by out-of-network health care providers; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study balance billing by out-of-network health care providers. The resolution directs JLARC to (i) examine the practice by hospitals of independently contracting with out-of-network physicians to provide emergency care; (ii) identify the costs of balance billing in circumstances when consumers receive health care services at an in-network hospital's emergency care department network from an out-of-network provider; and (iii) identify ways to protect covered patients from balance billing in situations where a patient is not able to select the provider on the basis of whether the provider is in his plan's network.

Out-of-network health care providers; JLARC to study balance billing by providers.

Sen. Glen Sturtevant [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-09	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rules
2018-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103179D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SJ57
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SJ57+hil