Bill Text: VA HB905 | 2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Hospitals; advance disclosure of charge for elective procedure, test, or service.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Passed) 2016-03-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0448) [HB905 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2016-HB905-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 448 An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 32.1 a section numbered 32.1-137.05, relating to advanced disclosure of charge for elective procedure. [H 905] Approved March 11, 2016

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 32.1 a section numbered 32.1-137.05 as follows:

§32.1-137.05. Advance disclosure of charge for elective procedure, test, or service.

Every hospital shall, upon request of a patient scheduled to receive an elective procedure, test, or service to be performed by the hospital, or upon request of 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 will be responsible for such elective procedure, test, or service.