WV SB632 | 2025 | Regular Session

West Virginia Senate Bill 632

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 28 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-28 - To Health and Human Resources
Pending: Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Summary

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit out-of-network emergency medical services agencies from balance billing a covered enrollee in a health insurance plan for ground ambulance services. The bill establishes the minimum payment to be made by an insurer to an out-of-network emergency medical services agency for ambulance services. The bill requires payment by the insurer directly to the out-of-network emergency medical services agency and the prompt payment of clean claims.

Title

Prohibiting surprise billing of ground emergency medical services by nonparticipating providers

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-28	Senate	To Health and Human Resources
2025-02-28	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2025-02-28	Senate	To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2025-02-28	Senate	Filed for introduction

Subjects

Insurance

Code Citations

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
33	15	24	New Code	See Bill Text
33	16	20	New Code	See Bill Text
33	24	46	New Code	See Bill Text
33	25	23	New Code	See Bill Text
33	25A	37	New Code	See Bill Text

West Virginia State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=632&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb632%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=632