Maryland Senate Bill 873 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on February 3 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-03-06 - Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring a hospital to annually submit a report to the Health Services Cost Review Commission on the total number of patients by race or ethnicity, gender, and zip code against whom the hospital has filed an action to collect a debt, or to whom the hospital has and has not reported or classified a bad debt, and the total amount of costs owed but not collected; requiring that a certain policy provide a mechanism to a patient to modify a payment plan and prohibit the hospital from collecting a certain debt for a certain patient; etc.

Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection

Sen. Brian Feldman [D]

Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]

Sen. Clarence Lam [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-06	Senate	Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn
2020-03-04	Senate	Hearing canceled
2020-02-07	Senate	Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-02-03	Senate	First Reading Finance

HB1081 (Crossfiled) 2020-03-09 - Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Health - General	19	214.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0873?ys=2020RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0873f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/sb0873_fin.pdf