Bill Amendment: AZ HB2494 | 2019 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 1st Regular
Bill Title: Health insurers; notice; providers
Status: 2019-04-26 - Chapter 138 [HB2494 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2019-HB2494-SENATE_-_Livingston_flr_amend_ref_FIN_adopted.html
Bill
Number: H.B. 2494
Livingston Floor Amendment
Reference to: FINANCE Committee amendment
Amendment drafted by: Carolyn Speroni
FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
1. Specifies that if a health insurer acquires the provider network of another health insurer, the health insurer that is contracted with a healthcare provider in the network that has been acquired shall notify each healthcare provider of the acquired network.
2. Allows a healthcare provider that is in a provider network that is acquired to:
a) continue the provider relationship;
b) terminate the provider relationship with the health insurer in a time and manner consistent with the contract; and
c) enter into a contract directly with the health insurer that acquired the provider network.
3. Specifies that this does not apply to acquisitions or arrangements that are disclosed in the network contract between a healthcare provider and a health insurer and to which the healthcare provider has already agreed.
Fifty-fourth Legislature Livingston
First Regular Session H.B. 2494
LIVINGSTON FLOOR AMENDMENT
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2494
(Reference to FINANCE Committee amendment)
Page 2, strike lines 4 through 6, insert:
"Page 2, line 1, strike "health care"
Line 3, strike "a health care" insert "the"; strike "that"
Strike line 4, insert "of another"
Line 5, strike "shall:"
Strike lines 6 through 11, insert "that is contracted with a health care provider in the network that has been acquired shall notify, consistent with the notification provisions of the provider contract, each health care provider of the acquired network.
B. A health care provider that is in a provider network that is acquired may do any of the following:
1. Continue the provider relationship with the health insurer that acquired the provider network.
2. Terminate the provider relationship with the health insurer that acquired the provider network in a time and manner consistent with the contract between the health care provider and the health insurer that is contracted with the health care provider.
3. Enter into a contract directly with the health insurer that acquired the provider network.
C. This section does not apply to acquisitions or arrangements that are disclosed in the network contract between a health care provider and a health insurer and to which the health care provider has already agreed."
Reletter to conform"
Amend title to conform
