Virginia House Bill 2770 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Passed on March 18 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-18 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Health policies; variances in area rating factors. Requires a rate filing by a health carrier that proposes area rate factors in the individual or small group market that exceed the weighted average of the proposed area rate factors among all rating areas by more than 15 percent to include, in publicly available and unredacted form, a comparison of the area rate factor for individual and small group plans that utilize the same provider network and provider reimbursement levels of the health benefit plans that are subject to the filing. In addition, to the extent that the health carrier is deriving any area rate factor from experience data, the measure requires the health carrier to provide additional information, including aggregated incurred claims for any provider exceeding 30 percent of total claims for the rating area in that market. The measure requires the State Corporation Commission to hold a public hearing before approving such proposed rates. The measure also bars the Commission from approving such a proposed rate filing if (i) a variance in area rate factors, indexed to the same rating region for both the individual and small group markets, of 15 percent or more exists between health benefit plans a carrier intends to offer in the individual market and health benefit plans intended to be offered in the small group market, when those plans utilize the same provider networks and reimbursement levels and (ii) the methodologies used to calculate the area rate factors are different between the two markets. The measure provides that beginning for plan year 2020, a health carrier with an approved rate filing that contains at least one area rate factor that exceeds by more than 25 percent the weighted average of the area rate factors among all rating areas in a market in which the health carrier offers individual or small group health insurance coverage shall file with the Commission for each calendar quarter during that plan year a report that provides, for each rating area within the market in which the health carrier operates, the plan's enrollment, total premiums, allowed claims, incurred claims excluding anticipated or, if available, actual risk adjustment payments or receipts, incurred claims including anticipated or, if available, actual risk adjustment payments or receipts, loss ratio, and aggregate claims, for each provider exceeding 25 percent of total claims for that rating area. The measure requires the health carrier to make each such quarterly report publicly available, without redaction, not later than 45 days after the end of the calendar quarter. This bill is identical to SB 1734.

Accident and sickness insurance; restrictions relating to premium rates.

Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]

Del. David Toscano [D]

2019-02-18 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-05 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (18-Y 0-N) (Y: 18 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-18		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439)
2019-03-18		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 439 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-02-28		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-02-28	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
2019-02-21	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-21	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-21	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2770ER)
2019-02-21	House	Enrolled
2019-02-18	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N)
2019-02-18	House	Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106575D-S1 (98-Y 0-N)
2019-02-18	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-14	Senate	Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-14	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2770S1
2019-02-14	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 19106575D-S1
2019-02-14	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2019-02-14	Senate	Read third time
2019-02-13	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2019-02-11	Senate	Committee substitute printed 19106575D-S1
2019-02-11	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2019-02-05	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
2019-02-05	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2019-02-04	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2770H1
2019-02-04	House	Committee substitute agreed to 19106175D-H1
2019-02-04	House	Read second time
2019-02-03	House	Read first time
2019-01-31	House	Committee substitute printed 19106175D-H1
2019-01-31	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (18-Y 0-N)
2019-01-18	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-01-18	House	Presented and ordered printed 19102615D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	3447	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2770
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2770+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2770H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2770S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2770ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0439+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H14V0076+HB2770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2416+HB2770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S02V0143+HB2770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0547HB2770+HB2770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0633HB2770+HB2770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2924+HB2770