Bill Title: As enacted, prohibits a managed health insurance issuer that has contracted with a physician's practice to be a part of that health insurance plan's network of providers from directly contacting, or employing an agent to directly contact, a patient of a physician's practice in an effort to change a referral for services to another provider, unless certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-03 - Pub. Ch. 518 [HB0867 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

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Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative David Shepard [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-069	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Patsy Hazlewood [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-027	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Curtis Johnson [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-068	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Harold Love [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-058	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bill Beck [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-051	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Joe Towns [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-084	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Craig Fitzhugh [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-082	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bryan Terry [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-048	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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