HB560 Alabama 2013 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Health care costs, health care providers to provide estimate upon request, Medical Cost Disclosure Act

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, there is no requirement that a hospital, clinic, physician, dentist, or other health care provider, prior to performing non-emergency health care services, furnishes the patient with an estimate of the medical costs</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would require health care providers to furnish a patient, prospective patient, his or her physician, or authorized agent with a written estimate of the prospective costs for non-emergency health care services upon request. This bill would require health care providers to itemize and explain in the medical bill any costs that exceed the written estimate</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also authorize the Department of Public Health to promulgate rules</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to health care costs; to require health care providers to furnish a patient or his or her physician with a written estimate of the prospective costs for non-emergency health care services upon request; to require the health care provider to itemize and explain in the medical bill any costs that exceed the written estimate; and to authorize the Department of Public Health to adopt rules. </p>

Subjects

Health Care