Bill Text: NC H809 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Third-Party Premium Payments

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-07-21 - Re-ref Com On Insurance [H809 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2015-H809-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

H                                                                                                                                                   3

HOUSE BILL 809*

Committee Substitute Favorable 4/22/15

Senate Health Care Committee Substitute Adopted 7/21/15

 

Short Title:        Third‑Party Premium Payments.		(Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:

April 15, 2015

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to allow third‑party premium payments for health benefit plans.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Article 3 of Chapter 58 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 58‑3‑305.  Third‑party premium payments; refusal of acceptance.

(a)        A health benefit plan must accept a premium payment made by a third party to the insurance contract provided the payment is made from or pursuant to a fund or grant established by any of the following:

(1)        The Ryan White HIV/AIDS program pursuant to Title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act.

(2)        Native American tribes or tribal organizations.

(3)        State or federal government programs.

(4)        The American Kidney Fund.

(b)        Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a health benefit plan to accept a third‑party premium payment from a health care provider.

(c)        As used in this section, "health benefit plan" is as defined in G.S. 58‑3‑167(a)(1)."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2015, and applies to health benefit contracts issued, renewed, or amended on or after that date.