Bill > S776

Introduced Session

This bill provides that any network agreement between a carrier, or the carrier's contracted vendor, and a health care provider for the provision of health or dental care services is prohibited from mandating only one form of payment to the health care provider. A carrier, or the carrier's vendor, is also prohibited from restricting the method of payment to an out-of-network health care provider providing out-of-network covered services to only one form of payment. The bill also requires a carrier, or the carrier's contracted vendor, to provide certain information to a health care provider, prior to initiating its first payment to the health care provider, where one of the available payment methods includes a fee and before changing the available payment methods. The bill prohibits a carrier from using a health care provider's preferred method of payment as a factor when deciding whether to provide credentials to a health care provider.

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Gordon Johnson (D)*,  Nick Scutari (D)*,  Joe Cryan (D),  Vin Gopal (D),  Nellie Pou (D), 

Withdrawn Because Approved P.L.2023, c.247. (on 01/09/2024)

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