File Code: Health Maintenance Organizations
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 482
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Weir, Guns, and Billings
- Entitled:
-
Health Maintenance
Organizations - Access to Services
Requiring health maintenance organizations to promote timely access to
and continuity of health care services for enrollees and members by
providing a 24-hour toll free telephone access system, providing
authorization at the initial telephone access for enrollees and
members who do not have an assigned primary care provider, and
providing for the reimbursement of the medical or surgical provider or
specialist on call at a hospital under specified circumstances; etc.
House Action
- 1/31
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/18
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/20
- Third Reading Passed (131-1)
Senate Action
- 3/21
- First Reading Finance
- Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/5
- Favorable Report by Finance
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Dorman) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Motion 2rdgs same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Dorman) Adopted
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (42-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
- Delegate Leon G. Billings, District 18
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- EMERGENCIES -see also- AMBULANCES; RESCUE SQUADS
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- HEALTH MAINT. ORGS
- PHYSICIANS
- TELEPHONES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-705.1 ,
19-705.6
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- House
- Number: 549775/4 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 18, 1997 at: 10:58
Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 882290/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 5, 1997 at: 14:02
Status: Adopted