D.C. Code §§ 44-501 through 44-509: Health-Care and Community Residence Facility, Hospice and Home Care Licensure — Licensure – District of Columbia
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1984
Statute bestows the Mayor responsibilities related to the licensure of healthcare facilities, such as ensuring that licensing rules are consistent with CON and anticompetitive rules.
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Del. Code tit. 18, § 3571L. Nondiscrimination in health care: Provisions Applicable to Group and Blanket Health Insurance – Delaware
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2013
Statute prohibits a group health plan and a health insurer offering group health insurance coverage from discriminating with respect to participation under the plan against any healthcare provider, but does not require that a group …
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Del. Code tit. 18, §§ 3601 through 3606, 3609 through 3613: Individual Health Insurance Minimum Standards – Delaware
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1983
Statutes purpose is to provide reasonable standardization and simplification of terms and coverages of individual health insurance policies and subscriber contracts of health service corporations to facilitate public understanding and comparison. Statutes also prevent a …
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Ga. Code Ann. § 33-20-16. Right to become participating physician or approved health care provider: Health Care Plan Act – Georgia
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1976
Every doctor of medicine, every doctor of dental surgery, every podiatrist, and every health care provider within a class approved by the health care corporation who is appropriately licensed to practice and who is reputable …
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Ga. Code Ann. § 33-20-17. Powers of corporations to contract for provision of health care services; receipt of payments: Health Care Plan Act – Georgia
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1976
Any health care corporation organized under this chapter and engaged in a health care plan may contract with any agency, instrumentality, or political subdivision of the United States of America or of this state to …
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Ga. Code Ann. § 33-20-18. Sale of contracts providing for payment of specified charges made by participating physicians; right of subscribers to select physicians; liability of corporations for negligence of physicians: Health Care Plan Act – Georgia
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1976
Health care corporations shall have the right to sell contracts providing for the payment of specified charges made by participating physicians furnishing medical or surgical care, or both, to the holders of such contracts, their …
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Ga. Code Ann. § 34-9-208. Certification of managed health care providers: Payment of Compensation: Medical Attention – Georgia
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1994
The board shall certify health care providers or a group of medical service providers if it: (1) proposes to provide services that meet the board’s standards; (2) provides appropriate financial incentives to reduce service costs …
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Ga. Code Ann. §§ 33-20B-1 through 33-20B-6: Essential Rural Health Care Provider Access Act – Georgia
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2000
Provisions govern the inclusion of essential rural health care providers as participating providers in health benefit plans and health maintenance organizations.
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Ga. Code Ann. §§ 33-30-20 through 33-30-27: Preferred Provider Arrangements Act – Georgia
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1988
It is the intent of the General Assembly to encourage health care cost containment while preserving quality of care by allowing health care insurers to enter into preferred provider arrangements and by establishing minimum standards …
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Ga. Code Ann. §§ 33-30A-1 through 33-30A-11: Health Plan Purchasing Cooperatives – Georgia
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1997
Sections govern Health Plan Purchasing Coopertives.
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H 1110 – Massachusetts
Introduced: 2021 Status: Inactive / Dead
An Act to extend coverage for any willing provider to qualify as a mental health professional
H 1125 – Massachusetts
Introduced: 2023 Status: In Process
An Act to increase enrollment in affordable health plan networks. limits the ability of the carrier to introduce or modify a select network plan or tiered network plan by granting the health care provider a …
H 1147 (see companion bill S 630) – Massachusetts
Introduced: 2023 Status: In Process
An Act ensuring access to specialty medications. This legislation amends the “Any Willing Provider” law to allow retail pharmacies to fill prescriptions for “specialty medications” provided the pharmacy is able to provide the required administrative, …
H 2958 (accompanied by study order H 4778) – Massachusetts
Introduced: 2017 Status: Inactive / Dead
An Act to extend coverage for any willing provider to qualify as a mental health professional: a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2958) of Sheila C. Harrington and Jennifer L. Flanagan relative to the …
H 963 – Massachusetts
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
For legislation to require that accountable care organizations have a clear and transparent process to accept or deny certain health care providers. Financial Services.
H 996 – Massachusetts
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
Relative to the right of health care consumers to receive treatment of mental health conditions from providers of their choice. Financial Services. To extend coverage for any willing provider to qualify as a mental health …