SB 265 – Kentucky
Status: Inactive / DeadYear Introduced: 2020
Link: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/20RS/sb265.html
AN ACT relating to consumer protections in health care. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to require health care providers to provide good faith estimates to patients for scheduled health care services; require health care providers and insurers to disclose certain information for scheduled health care services that are covered under a covered person’s health plan; prohibit balance billing for certain nonparticipating providers that fail to provide a good faith estimate; prohibit balance billing for certain emergency services; prohibit insurers and health facilities from representing that a health facility is a participating provider under certain circumstances; establish penalties and enforcement by the Attorney General; amend KRS 304.17A-580 to require health plans to cover certain emergency services; establish reimbursement requirements for certain emergency services provided by a nonparticipating provider at an out-of-network facility; amend KRS 304.12-020 to provide that it shall be an unfair or deceptive trade practice for an insurer to violate Section 1 of the Act; state that certain contracts that are contrary to the Act shall be unenforceable and void.
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