File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 585
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Barve, Goldwater, Eckardt, Love, Donoghue, McClenahan,
Pendergrass, and Bobo
- Entitled:
-
Health Insurance - Managed Behavioral Health Care Organizations -
Quality
Measures, Explanations, and Expense Ratios
Requiring a carrier that owns or contracts with a managed behavioral
health care organization to distribute to members an explanation of
benefits covered and specific exclusions, members' responsibilities,
the methodology for reimbursing providers, and the procedure for
obtaining services outside the provider network; requiring a carrier
to file with the Insurance Commissioner the mental health expense
ratio for the provision of behavioral health care services to members;
establishing a specified task force; etc.
House Action
- 2/12
- First Reading Economic Matters
- 2/17
- Hearing 3/4 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 (138-0)
- 4/4
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Goldwater, Eckardt, and Brown
- 4/6
- Return Passed
- 5/27
- Governor vetoed - Cross-filed bill was signed
Senate Action
- 3/22
- First Reading Finance
- 3/23
- Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/1
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
- 4/7
- Motion Senate Recede (Senator Bromwell) Adopted
- Committee Amendment (Finance) Withdrawn
- Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- Senate Recede
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate Charles A. McClenahan, District 38
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- ADVTG.; LABELING; WARRANTIES.
- DISCLOSURE
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN. CARE ORGS
- HEALTH PLANNING AND COST REVIEW
- INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION
- MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- HEALTH MAINT. ORGS
- MENTAL HEALTH
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
15-126
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 223382/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 1999 at:
10:21 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 217267/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 9, 1999 at:
9:26 a.m. Status: Withdrawn
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 22, 1999: Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- Senate
- April 2, 1999: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- April 7, 1999: Third Reading Passed (45-0)
