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This bill aims to modify existing law to shift legal liability for patient harm caused by delays in healthcare treatment from medical professionals to health insurance companies. Specifically, the bill prevents patients from suing licensed healthcare professionals for adverse medical outcomes that are directly caused by an insurance company's delay in authorizing or approving necessary medical care. Instead, patients would be directed to bring legal action directly against the health insurance company for damages resulting from unreasonable delays in treatment approval. The bill's purpose is to hold health insurers more accountable for their role in potentially restricting or impeding timely patient access to needed healthcare, while simultaneously protecting medical professionals from legal risks that arise from treatment delays outside of their control. By creating this legal pathway, the bill seeks to incentivize health insurers to process treatment authorizations more efficiently and reduce potential harm to patients caused by administrative bureaucracy.

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