Bill Text: VA SB721 | 2018 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Health care services; practitioners to provide to patient payment estimates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-01 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N) [SB721 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-SB721-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
a patient who is
scheduled to receive an elective a nonemergency procedure,
test, or service to be performed by the hospital, or
upon request of such patient's legally authorized
representative, made no less than at least 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 will be responsible for such
elective 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 a patient who is scheduled to receive a nonemergency procedure, test, or service to be performed by the practitioner, or such patient's legally authorized representative, at least three days in advance of the date on which such procedure, test, or service is scheduled to be performed, an estimate of the payment amount for which the participant will be responsible for such procedure, test, or service.
