Virginia Senate Bill 281 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-01-11 - Incorporated by Education and Health
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Patient notice of observation or outpatient status. Provides that, for Medicare patients placed in observation or outpatient status, any hospital that provides a written notice and an oral explanation of such notice to the patient that satisfies the federal requirements for such notice shall be deemed to have satisfied Virginia's requirements for such notice. The bill also extends the timeframe for the provision of the notice required by current law from 24 hours to 36 hours. This bill was incorporated into SB 269.

Medicare patients; patient notice of observation or outpatient status.

Sen. George Barker [D]

2018-01-11 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-11	Senate	Incorporated by Education and Health
2018-01-05	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2018-01-05	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103625D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	137.04	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB281
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB281+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S04V0011+SB0281