Delaware House Bill 39 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-4)
Status: Introduced on December 18 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-12-18 - Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House
Pending: House Health & Human Development Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This bill requires that inadvertent out-of-network services be included in individual and group health insurance policies as well as group and blank health insurance policies. This bill defines inadvertent out-of-network services are those services that are covered under a policy or contract of health insurances, but are provided by an out-of-network provider in an in-network facility, or when in-network health care services are unavailable or not made available to the insured in the facility. Inadvertent out-of-network services also includes laboratory testing ordered by an in-network provider but performed by an out-of-network laboratory.

An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Health Insurance.

Rep. David Bentz [D]	Sen. Sarah McBride [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Sen. Darius Brown [D]
Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]
Sen. Marie Pinkney [D]	Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]
Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. William Bush [D]	Rep. William Carson [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]
Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]
Rep. Larry Lambert [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Rep. John Mitchell [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]
Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Rep. Daniel Short [R]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]	Rep. Jeffrey Spiegelman [R]
Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]	Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-12-18		Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48224
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48224&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB39