Kentucky Senate Bill 157 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-5)
Status: Engrossed on March 17 2010 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-03-24 - returned to Health & Welfare (H)
Pending: House Health and Welfare Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Create new sections of Subtitles 17A, 17B, and 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to require that specified health benefit plans and health insurance provide reimbursement for any service which is within the lawful scope of practice of a licensed doctor of chiropractic; define "doctor of chiropractic," "insurer," "nonroutine office visit," and "routine office visit"; require that individual procedures performed by a doctor of chiropractic be treated as separate and distinct treatments and not be combined into payment for an office visit or other outpatient visit for specified treatment; provide that only one evaluation and management procedure performed on the same date by the same provider shall be reimbursed; prohibit imposition upon the insured for more than one coinsurance or copayment for each routine or nonroutine office visit to a doctor of chiropractic; require reimbursement at not less than reimbursement rates in effect on October 15, 2008; require insurers to report fee methodology to providers; require that a contract between an insurer and a doctor of chiropractic comply with the new sections.

AN ACT relating to chiropractic.

Sen. Walter Blevins [D]	Sen. David Boswell [D]	Sen. Tom Buford [R]	Sen. Julian Carroll [D]
Sen. Perry Clark [D]	Sen. Denise Harper Angel [D]	Sen. Alice Kerr [R]	Sen. Joey Pendleton [D]
Sen. Mike Reynolds [D]	Sen. Jerry Rhoads [D]	Sen. Dorsey Ridley [D]	Sen. John Schickel [R]
Sen. Kathy Stein [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Tori [R]	Sen. Johnny Turner [D]	Sen. Robin Webb [D]
Sen. Kenneth Winters [R]	Sen. Ed Worley [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-24		returned to Health & Welfare (H)
2010-03-24		1st reading
2010-03-24		taken from committee
2010-03-19		posted in committee
2010-03-19		to Health & Welfare (H)
2010-03-17		received in House
2010-03-16		passed 32-2 with Committee Substitute
2010-03-16		floor amendments (1) and (2) withdrawn
2010-03-16		3rd reading
2010-03-11		floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute
2010-03-10		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 15, 2010
2010-03-03		floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2010-03-03		2nd reading, to Rules
2010-03-02		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
2010-02-18		to Banking & Insurance (S)
2010-02-16		introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB157.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB157/bill.doc