Virginia House Bill 188 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on December 26 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-04 - Continued to 2021 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Health care services; payment estimates. Requires hospitals and practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine to provide a patient or the representative of a patient scheduled to receive a nonemergency procedure, test, or service to be performed by the hospital or practitioner with an estimate of the payment amount for which the patient will be responsible no later than one week after the scheduling of such procedure, test, or service. Currently, only hospitals are required to provide such estimate, and such estimate is required only (i) for elective procedures, tests, or services; (ii) within three days of the procedure, test, or service; and (iii) upon request of the patient or his representative.

Health care services; payment estimates.

Del. Mark Levine [D]

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-04	House	Continued to 2021 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
2020-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2021 by voice vote
2020-01-22	House	Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions
2019-12-26	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2019-12-26	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100999D

HB188 (Carry Over) 2020-02-04 - Continued to 2021 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB188
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB188+hil