West Virginia Senate Bill 296 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-08 - To Banking and Insurance
Pending: Senate Banking and Insurance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Fair Health Insurance Act of 2014. The bill defines “illusionary benefit” to require benefits to cover at least seventy-five percent of health care service. It establishes reasonable copays among common insurance needs. It prevents insurance companies from discriminating against licensed health care practitioners to whom they will pay for a covered service. The bill prevents insurance companies from arbitrarily defining medically necessary rehabilitation services to avoid making payment for a covered service or for a service that should be covered. The bill makes physical therapy and rehabilitation services a mandated covered service for any health insurance plan. And, the bill increases the monetary criminal penalty for insurance companies that violate any provisions of the chapter.

Relating to health insurance; benefits and services

Del. Samuel Cann [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-08	Senate	To Banking and Insurance
2014-01-08	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2014-01-08	Senate	To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
2014-01-08	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB2918 (Similar To) 2014-01-09 - To House Health and Human Resources

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
33	1	22	New Code	See Bill Text
33	15	14	Amended Code	Citation Text
33	15	22	New Code	See Bill Text
33	15	4d	Amended Code	Citation Text
33	16	10	Amended Code	Citation Text
33	16	18	New Code	See Bill Text
33	16	3h	Amended Code	Citation Text
33	16D	17	New Code	See Bill Text
33	16D	18	New Code	See Bill Text
33	16D	19	New Code	See Bill Text
33	24	43	Amended Code	Citation Text
33	24	7c	Amended Code	Citation Text
33	24	7m	New Code	See Bill Text
33	25	20	Amended Code	Citation Text
33	25	8b	Amended Code	Citation Text
33	25	8j	New Code	See Bill Text
33	25A	31	Amended Code	Citation Text
33	25A	8b	Amended Code	Citation Text
33	25A	8l	New Code	See Bill Text
33	28	8	New Code	See Bill Text
33	28	9	New Code	See Bill Text
33	4	7	Repealed Code	Citation Text
33	4	8	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=296&year=2014&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb296%20intr.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=296
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb296%20intr.htm&yr=2012&sesstype=RS&i=296