| RI | S2404 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE PRACTICE OF ACUPUNCTURE AND CHINESE MEDICINE - Broadens the definition of a "qualified individual" in acupuncture and Chinese medicine to include any person trained and certified in auricular acudetox. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S3047 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE - Requires insurance coverage for at a minimum up to ninety (90) days of residential or inpatient services for mental health and/or substance use disorders for American Society of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2877 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FUNERAL DIRECTOR/EMBALMER AND FUNERAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - Provides for the operation and duties of natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. A disposition facility... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2625 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF MASSAGE THERAPISTS - Relocates the chapter relating to licensing of massage therapists from the health and safety title to the businesses and professions title with multiple amendments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2401 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all services provided by a pharmacist provided coverage of such services would have been covered if provided by a physician, advanced practice nurse, or physician... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2704 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- KRATOM CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT - Authorizes and regulates the distribution of the product known as "kratom." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2400 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- WHOLESALE PRESCRIPTION DRUG IMPORTATION PROGRAM - Establishes the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program for the importation of wholesale prescription drugs from Canada to provide savings to Rhode Island consumers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2614 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Requires a report to be produced that focuses on prescription drug prior authorizations by January 1, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2611 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Limits the use by insurers of step therapy, a protocol that establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs for a specified medical condition are covered by an insurer, by al... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2390 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health and provides guidance and recommendations to educate health care providers and the citizens of the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2605 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to 1 per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The Rhode Island attorney would have t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2609 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DENSE BREAST NOTIFICATION AND EDUCATION - Amends the notice requirement to patients to follow the mandated FDA national reporting standards following a mammogram. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2705 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) to conduct periodic comprehensive needs assessments to determine whether the department's programs and service... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2608 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires executive office of health and human services to establish an early childhood mental health hub program focused on improving access to infant and early childhood mental he... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2610 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDER COMPENSATION ACT - Expands health insurance commissioner's authority to set reimbursement rates for mental health services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2873 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- DENTAL INSURANCE LOSS RATIO REPORTING AND STUDY ACT - Requires dental health insurance carriers to file an actuarial memorandum disclosing its incurred claims/earned premiums, to assist the health insurance commissioner with respect to a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2965 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Provides that dental services rendered to patients would be reimbursed by standards governed by the general laws of Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2498 | Intro 25% | Senate Resolution Proclaiming April 25, 2024, To Be "parental Alienation Awareness Day" In The State Of Rhode Island [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2874 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CERTIFIED SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANTS - Allows for the licensing of certified surgical first assistants to assist in surgeries through the department of health and a seven (7) member board of licensure. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2876 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- RHODE ISLAND PHYSICAL THERAPIST LICENSURE COMPACT ACT - Allows the state to become a member of the physical therapist licensure compact adopted by twenty-five (25) states in order to facilitate the interstate practice of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2946 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates all insurance plans provide insurance coverage for diagnosing and treating infertility for women between the ages of 25 and 42 years including preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2871 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PSYCHOLOGISTS - Includes licensed school psychologists under the provisions of the general laws governing the regulations of psychologists and expands the licensing of school psychologists for independent practice. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2617 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Adds a new section which sets forth conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation/drug therapies, programs approved by the state board of pharmacy. The cessation therapies would be covered by all... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2398 | Intro 25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL CARE - Prohibits a medical training program from using a live animal while teaching medical procedures if any other accredited training program does not use animals or there is an alternate method that teaches t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2870 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MEDICAL SPAS SAFETY ACT - Provides that the performance of cosmetic medical services is the practice of medicine and surgery. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2618 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND OLMSTEAD PLAN COMMISSION ACT - Creates an Olmstead Plan for people vulnerable to unnecessary institutionalization to update a continuum of care to receive services and supports in the least restrictive env... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2872 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE DISCHARGE PLANNING - Requires coverage for residential/inpatient mental health services for detox/stabilization/substance abuse disorders without preauthorization or be subject to concurrent review during the first ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2869 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires the director of the department of health to provide guidance to non-governmental employers and the public on acquiring opioid antagonist medication and training for its u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2816 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS - Provides for procedures for the burial of unclaimed remains. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2815 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS - Permits reimbursement for dental hygienists from "other insurance" or a third party payor such as Medicare. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2820 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Substitutes the current lists of controlled substances in the general laws with the current version of title 21 of the code of federal regulations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2817 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS - Includes among the responsibilities of the office of state medical examiners, to provide a multidisciplinary team review of suicide deaths with a goal of reducing its prevalence by examining tr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2819 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF NURSING SERVICE AGENCIES - Removes the exemption from licensure for certain nursing service agencies accredited by the joint commission. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2945 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ACT - Amends provisions relative to confidentiality of health care communications and the process for requesting records and/or confidential health care infor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2759 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LONG-TERM CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL - Provides for remote participation in open public meetings of the long-term care coordinating council and would provide that a quorum of the council consists of 12 members. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2715 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates health insurance coverage to include transportation for emergency services by ambulance or rescue. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2613 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE -- PROMPT PROCESSING OF INSURANCE CLAIMS - Prohibits a health insurer from denying a claim for any medical bill based on sole reasoning that the bill may arise from a motor vehic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2403 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY - Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2392 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Amend the standards for issuing Medicare supplemental insurance policies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2382 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- LIFETIME LIMITS - Repeals the authority of the health insurance commissioner to enforce any act of Congress/decision of federal court invalidating or repealing the prohibition of annual lifetim... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2069 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription asthma inhaler to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2607 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires coverage for acute mental health crisis mobile response and stabilization services to any individual enrolled as a plan beneficiary. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2606 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all community health workers' services to include health and promotion coaching, health education and training, health system navigation and resource coordination... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2070 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits an insurance company from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for any diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2626 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health plans that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of glucagon auto-injector, nasal spray, or formulation that does not require reconstitution to treat hypoglyce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2085 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars, per ear, every three years for all people regardless of age. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2176 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates health insurance coverage to include transportation for emergency services by ambulance or rescue. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2604 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - Includes immediate family members and related parties to be included in the definitions applicable to the chapter and require that information for nursing facility applicants for initial lice... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2621 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NURSING HOME WORKFORCE STANDARDS BOARD ACT - Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2818 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and would provide penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |