Bill Text: VA HB2427 | 2019 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Health care services; payment estimates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-05 - Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote [HB2427 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2019-HB2427-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §32.1-137.05 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 6 of Chapter 29 of Title 54.1 a section numbered 54.1-2973.2 as follows:
§32.1-137.05. Advance disclosure of charge for nonemergency procedure, test, or service.
Every hospital shall, upon request of provide to a
patient scheduled to receive an elective a nonemergency procedure,
test, or service to be performed by the hospital, or
upon request of to such
patient's legally authorized representative, made
no less than three days in advance of the date on which
such elective procedure, test, or service is scheduled to be performed, furnish
the patient with an estimate of the
payment amount for which the participant patient will be responsible
for such elective nonemergency
procedure, test, or service, no
more than one week after scheduling such nonemergency procedure, test, or
service.
§54.1-2973.2. Advance disclosure of charge for nonemergency procedure, test, or service.
Every practitioner licensed pursuant to this chapter shall provide to a patient scheduled to receive a nonemergency procedure, test, or service to be performed by the practitioner, or to such patient's legally authorized representative, an estimate of the payment amount for which the patient will be responsible, no more than one week after scheduling such nonemergency procedure, test, or service.
