Legislation

Title: Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection
Sponsored by: Delegates Charkoudian, Crutchfield, Fennell, Kelly, Lehman, Lierman, Ruth, Shetty, Solomon, Terrasa, Turner, and P. Young
Status: In the House - Withdrawn by Sponsor
Analysis: Fiscal and Policy Note

Synopsis

Requiring a hospital to annually submit a report to the Health Services Cost Review Commission on the total number of patients by race or ethnicity, gender, and zip code against whom the hospital has filed an action to collect a debt, or to whom the hospital has and has not reported or classified a bad debt, and the total amount of costs owed but not collected; requiring that a certain policy provide a mechanism to a patient to modify a payment plan and prohibit the hospital from collecting a certain debt for a certain patient; etc.

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Original:: Health and Government Operations Click to view Recorded Media

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Cross-filed with: SB0873

Bill File Type: Regular

Effective Date(s): October 1, 2020

History

Legislation History
Chamber House Calendar Date 2/06/2020 Legislative Date 2/06/2020 Action First Reading Health and Government Operations Proceedings
Chamber Calendar Date Legislative Date Action Text - First - Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection Proceedings
Chamber House Calendar Date 2/11/2020 Legislative Date 2/11/2020 Action Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m. Proceedings
Chamber Calendar Date Legislative Date Action Vote - House - Committee - Health and Government Operations Proceedings Click to view Recorded Media
Chamber House Calendar Date 3/09/2020 Legislative Date 3/09/2020 Action Withdrawn by Sponsor Proceedings

Chamber	Calendar Date	Legislative Date	Action	Proceedings
House	2/06/2020	2/06/2020	First Reading Health and Government Operations
			Text - First - Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection
House	2/11/2020	2/11/2020	Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
			Vote - House - Committee - Health and Government Operations	Click to view Recorded Media
House	3/09/2020	3/09/2020	Withdrawn by Sponsor

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