West Virginia Senate Bill 490 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: Introduced on February 5 2014 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2014-02-25 - On 2nd reading to Judiciary
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to provide that insurers may not contractually require optometrists, ophthalmologists, dentists, chiropractors, podiatrists or any other health care professional to provide a discount on services such insurers do not cover under the plan; to require health care professionals to charge no more to covered persons for noncovered services and materials than his or her customary rate, requiring that discounts will not result in a fee that is less than what an insurer would pay for covered services and prohibiting insurers from paying nominal reimbursements in order to claim that services or materials are covered services.

Relating to noncovered insurance discounts by health care providers

Sen. Gregory Tucker [D]

Sen. Daniel Hall [D]

Sen. Mike Green [D]

Sen. Clark Barnes [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-25	Senate	On 2nd reading to Judiciary
2014-02-25	Senate	Read 1st time
2014-02-25	Senate	Immediate consideration
2014-02-25	Senate	Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
2014-02-05	Senate	To Banking and Insurance
2014-02-05	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2014-02-05	Senate	To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
2014-02-05	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
33	6	38	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=490&year=2014&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb490%20intr.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=490
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB490%20SUB1.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=490