Bill Text: VA HB188 | 2021 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Health care services; payment estimates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-04 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions [HB188 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2021-HB188-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §32.1-137.05 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 6 of Chapter 29 of Title 54.1 a section numbered 54.1-2973.2 as follows:
§32.1-137.05. Advance estimate of patient payment amount for elective charge for nonemergency
procedure, test, or service.
Every hospital shall, upon
request of
provide to a patient scheduled to receive an elective a nonemergency procedure,
test, or service to be performed by the hospital, or upon request of to such patient's legally
authorized representative, made
no less than three days in advance of the date on which such elective
procedure, test, or service is scheduled to be performed, furnish the patient
with an estimate of the payment amount for which the participant patient will be responsible
for such
elective
nonemergency procedure, test, or service, no later than one week after the scheduling of such
nonemergency procedure, test, or service.
Every hospital shall provide written information about the a patient's ability to request
an estimate of the payment amount pursuant to this section. Such written
information shall be posted conspicuously in public areas of the hospital,
including admissions or registration areas, and included on any website
maintained by the hospital.
§ 54.1-2973.2. Advance estimate of charge for nonemergency procedure, test, or service.
Every practitioner licensed pursuant to this chapter shall provide to a patient scheduled to receive a nonemergency procedure, test, or service to be performed by the practitioner, or to such patient's legally authorized representative, an estimate of the payment amount for which the patient will be responsible, no later than one week after the scheduling of such nonemergency procedure, test, or service.
