SB 1126
VIRTUAL CARE ACCESS – Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to provide for virtual care access.
VIRTUAL CARE ACCESS – Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to provide for virtual care access.
Naturopathic doctors, licensing/scope of practice: OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING – Adds to existing law to provide for the licensing of naturopathic practitioners.
OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING – Amends existing law to provide for interstate telehealth access.
TELEHEALTH ACCESS – Amends existing law to provide for the prescribing of certain drugs via telehealth in compliance with federal law.
TELEHEALTH – Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the establishment of a provider-patient relationship using telehealth technologies.
OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING – Amends existing law to provide requirements for physician assistants who practice at certain facilities or practices or who own a medical practice.
MEDICAID – Amends existing law to provide for reimbursement for new in-state hospitals serving as Medicaid providers.
HOSPITALS -- Amends existing law to provide that a hospital trustee may not be an employee of or have an ownership interest in certain other facilities and to revise provisions regarding hospital boards.
INSURANCE -- Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding reciprocal jurisdictions and credit for reinsurance procedures.
NO SURPRISES ACT -- Adds to existing law to establish the No Surprises Act to prohibit medical billing above certain amounts in contracted facilities. This legislation prohibits the practice of surprise medical billing. It protects consumers by making surprise medical bills void and unenforceable. It allows out-of-network providers to benefit from and be reimbursed at the same rate negotiated by contracted providers. It permits self-insured businesses whose plans are governed by federal law to benefit from these protections if their plan elects to participate.