SB925
Health insurance; carrier business practices, method of payment for claims.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Health insurance; carrier business practices; method of payment for transactions.
Requires a health insurance carrier to notify the provider in a provider contract if the carrier, or entity completing a transaction on behalf of the carrier, uses a payment method that imposes a transaction or processing fee or similar charge on the provider and to offer the provider an alternative ... (More) payment method that does not impose such a fee or similar charge. If the provider elects to accept the alternative payment method and has provided all required information to the carrier to enroll in such alternative method, the bill specifies that the carrier is required to pay the claim using such alternative payment method. This bill is identical to HB 2085. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/06/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101401D
- 01/06/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/13/2025 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/13/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25104891D-S1
- 01/15/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N)
- 01/15/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/15/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/16/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to
- 01/16/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/16/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/16/2025 - Senate: Commerce and Labor Substitute agreed to
- 01/16/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 01/17/2025 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB925)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/04/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 02/05/2025 - House: Placed on Labor and Commerce Agenda
- 02/06/2025 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/11/2025 - House: Read third time
- 02/11/2025 - House: Passed House (94-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB925ER)
- 02/13/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB925)
- 02/16/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025
- 02/20/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/21/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 242 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/21/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242)
