VA HB1097 | 2020 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-11 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-11 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
Health care services; estimate of cost. Requires every hospital and every practitioner licensed by the Board of Medicine to, upon request and within three days of the receipt of such request, provide an estimate of the cost any procedure, test, or service that may be performed by the hospital or practitioner. Currently, hospitals are required to provide information about the payment amount for which a patient may be responsible to a patient scheduled to receive an elective procedure, test, or service upon request. Health care practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine are not currently required to provide such estimates.
Title
Health care services; estimate of cost of any procedure, etc.
Sponsors
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
---|---|---|
2020-02-11 | House | Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions |
2020-01-15 | House | Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions |
2020-01-07 | House | Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions |
2020-01-07 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104930D |
Code Citations
Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
---|---|---|---|---|
32 | 1 | 137.05 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
54 | 1 | 2973.2 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
Virginia State Sources
Type | Source |
---|---|
Summary | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1097 |
Text | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1097+hil |