CHAPTER NUMBER: 644
File Code: Health Maintenance Organizations
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 475
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Barve and Goldwater
- Entitled:
-
Continuity of Patient Care Act
Requiring a health maintenance organization (HMO) that allows a member
or subscriber to receive specified emergency medical services to
reimburse a specified health care provider who provides specified
medically necessary follow-up care; and prohibiting an HMO, under
specified circumstances, from imposing on a member or subscriber any
co-payment or other cost-sharing requirement that exceeds what the
member or subscriber is required to pay for services rendered by a
health care provider who is a member of the provider panel of the HMO.
House Action
- 2/11
- First Reading Economic Matters
- Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 3/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/22
- Third Reading Passed (135-2)
- 3/31
- Return Passed
- 5/27
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 644
Senate Action
- 3/22
- First Reading Finance
- 3/23
- Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/1
- Favorable Report by Finance
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- EMERGENCIES -see also- AMBULANCES; RESCUE SQUADS
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN. CARE ORGS
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- PATIENTS
- PHYSICIANS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Health - General
- (
19-712.5
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 353285/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 1999 at:
10:15 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 22, 1999: Third Reading Passed (135-2)
- Senate
- April 2, 1999: Third Reading Passed (47-0)