Bill Text: CA SB1176 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health care coverage: cost sharing: monitoring.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-21 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member V. Manuel Pérez. [SB1176 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1176-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1176	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Steinberg

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act relating to health care coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1176, as introduced, Steinberg. Health care coverage: consumer
notice.
   Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975,
provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service
plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law provides
for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of
Insurance. Existing law requires a plan or insurer to provide certain
disclosures of the benefits, services, and terms of a contract or
policy.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require private health care service plans and
health insurance companies to notify a consumer when that individual
has achieved the maximum limits related to his or her copay,
coinsurance, and deductible as stipulated in the consumer's contract.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require private health care service plans and
health insurance companies to notify a consumer when that individual
has achieved the maximum limits related to his or her copay,
coinsurance, and deductible as stipulated in the consumer's contract.