Virginia House Bill 1251 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 19 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-11 - Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Health insurance; assignment of benefits. Prohibits health care coverage plan providers from refusing to accept assignments of benefits executed by covered individuals in favor of health care providers and hospitals. The bill is applicable to (i) insurers issuing individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis, (ii) corporations providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, (iii) health maintenance organizations providing health care plans for health care services, and (iv) dental services plans offering or administering prepaid dental services. An "assignment of benefits" is the transfer of health care coverage reimbursement benefits or other rights under an insurance policy, subscription contract, or health care plan by an insured, subscriber, or plan enrollee to a health care provider or hospital.

Health insurance; assignment of benefits.

Del. James Leftwich [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-11	House	Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
2016-02-04	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017 by voice vote
2016-01-28	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #1
2016-01-19	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2016-01-19	House	Presented and ordered printed 16104501D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	3407.13	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	4214	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	4319	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	4509	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB1251
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB1251+hil