Virginia Senate Bill 721 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-02-01 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Health care services; payment estimates. Requires practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine and hospitals to provide a patient or the representative of a patient scheduled to receive a nonemergency procedure, test, or service to be performed by the practitioner or hospital, at least three days in advance of the date of such procedure, test, or service, an estimate of the payment amount for which the participant will be responsible. Under current law, the requirement to provide such estimate applies only to hospitals for elective procedures, tests, or services and only upon request.

Health care services; practitioners to provide to patient payment estimates.

Sen. Amanda Chase [R]

2018-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-01	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N)
2018-01-26	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2018-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101942D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	137.05	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	2973.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB721
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB721+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S04V0117+SB0721