SB 311 (see companion bill HB 1213) – Pennsylvania

Status: Inactive / Dead
Year Introduced: 2019
Link: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=S&type=B&bn=311

Patient Access and Consumer Choice Act: An Act requiring physician practices operating as part of an integrated delivery network to meet certain requirements to ensure patient access and consumer choice; imposing powers and duties on the Insurance Department; and imposing penalties. To ensure that physician practices operating as part of an integrated delivery network are not permitted to use their market dominance to exert undue pressure on health insurance providers or to restrict a patient’s access, a requirement must be imposed that all physician practices operating as part of an integrated delivery network contract with any willing health insurance provider.


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