Bill Text: MI HB4028 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Insurance: health benefits; insurer requiring physicians to hold certain certifications before paying or reimbursing claims; prohibit unless specifically required for licensure. Amends sec. 2212d of 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.2212d).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-28 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 01/27/2021 [HB4028 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB4028-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4028
January 27, 2021, Introduced by Rep. Hoitenga
and referred to the Committee on Insurance.
A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled
"The insurance code of 1956,"
by amending section 2212d (MCL 500.2212d), as added by 2018 PA 487.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 2212d. An insurer that delivers, issues for delivery, or renews in this state a health insurance policy issued under chapter 34 or a health maintenance organization that issues a health maintenance contract under chapter 35 shall not require as the sole condition precedent to the payment or reimbursement of a claim under the policy or contract that an allopathic or osteopathic physician in the medical specialties of family practice, internal medicine, or pediatrics maintain a national or regional certification not otherwise specifically required for licensure under article 15 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16101 to 333.18838.
