Bill Text: NJ A4261 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits health care professionals, health care facilities, and insureds to file certain health insurance claims within 365 days of date of service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-09 - Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading [A4261 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A4261-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman SHAVONDA E. SUMTER
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Permits health care professionals, health care facilities, and insureds to file certain health insurance claims within 365 days of date of service.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act permitting health care professionals, health care facilities, and insureds to file certain claims for third party payment within 365 days of the date of service.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, any health care professional licensed pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes, health care facility licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.), or an insured may file a claim for third party payment within 365 days of the last date of service for a course of treatment for health care services provided during the covered period.
b. "Covered period" means the period beginning January 1, 2020 and ending with the conclusion of the Public Health Emergency and State of Emergency declared by the Governor in Executive Order 103, March 9, 2020.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill permits health care professionals, health care facilities, and insureds to file claims for treatment provided between January 1, 2020 and the end of the Public Health Emergency and State of Emergency declared by the Governor in Executive Order 103, March 9, 2020, within 365 days of the last date of service for health care services provided during the covered period.
