HB2085
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 SB 925. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101673D
- 01/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/15/2025 - House: Placed on Labor and Commerce Agenda
- 01/16/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25105122D-H1
- 01/16/2025 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/2025 - House: Read first time
- 01/21/2025 - House: Read second time
- 01/21/2025 - House: Labor and Commerce Substitute agreed to
- 01/21/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 01/22/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/2025 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 01/22/2025 - House: Passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/29/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2085)
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 02/18/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2085ER)
- 02/18/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2085)
- 02/18/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/03/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2024
- 03/03/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/21/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 236 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/21/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236)
