MA S655

Bill

Relative to ambulance service reimbursement

Introduced
01/22/2019

In Committee
12/29/2020

Crossed Over

Passed

Dead
12/31/2020

Introduced Session

191st General Court

Bill Summary

For legislation relative to ambulance service reimbursement. Financial Services.

AI Summary

This bill amends Chapter 176D of the General Laws to require insurers to directly and promptly pay ambulance service providers for emergency ambulance services provided to their insured patients, even if the ambulance service provider is not contracted with the insurer. The payment rate would be based on the ambulance rates established by the municipality from which the patient was transported. The bill also requires municipalities to report their ambulance rates annually to the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) and limits the rate increases to the current Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark set by the Health Policy Commission, unless approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Additionally, the bill establishes an Ambulance Service Advisory Council to advise the Secretary on requests for rate increases above the benchmark.

Committee Categories

Business and Industry, Health and Social Services

Sponsors (10)

Michael Brady (D), Diana Dizoglio (D), Paul Feeney (D), Jim Hawkins (D), Louis Kafka (D), Harold Naughton (D), Patrick O'Connor (R), John Rogers (D), Bruce Tarr (R), Walter Timilty (D),

Last Action

Ought NOT to pass (under Joint Rule 10) and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session (on 12/29/2020)

Official Document

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S655

(12 Companion Bills)

Version:

Document Type	Source Location
State Bill Page	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S655
Bill	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S655.pdf

Bill	Bill Name	Last Action	Type
H1149	To require equivalent Medicaid reimbursement	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means	Similar To
H1720	Relative to creating a pilot program to transfer high acuity behavioral health and dual diagnosis patients away from overcrowded emergency departments	Accompanied S1164	Similar To
H2834	Relative to reasonable municipal expenses	Accompanied a study order, see H4405	Similar To
H3084	Establishing an emergency responder yellow dot program	Accompanied H3060	Similar To
H3113	Relative to lights for ambulances, fire apparatus and law enforcement vehicles	Accompanied a study order, see H4772	Similar To
H405	Relative to the charter school reimbursement rate for the town of Foxborough	Accompanied a study order, see H5159	Similar To
H955	Relative to payments for use of ambulance services	Accompanied a study order, see H5160	Similar To
S1679	Establishing a municipal gas tax reimbursement	Accompanied a study order, see S2795	Similar To
S1861	Resolve establishing a PILOT reimbursement commission	Discharged to the committee on Senate Ways and Means	Similar To
S2078	To improve road safety	Accompanied a study order, see S2559	Similar To
S2298	Relative to emergency prescriptions	Ought NOT to pass (under Joint Rule 10) and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session	Similar To
S251	Relative to circuit breaker reimbursement	Accompanied a new draft, see S2348	Similar To

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