SB88 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Gerald O. Dial

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Health, contracts for health care services, payment not restricted to credit card only, Transparency in Health Insurer Payment Transactions, Sec. 27-1-17.1 added

Description

Under current law, a health insurer or vendor may initiate or change the method of payment to a health care provider to payment through a credit card, exposing the health care provider to unknown charges, without the health care provider having actual prior knowledge of the credit card payment method, or the language in the contract that allowed the initiation of or change to a credit card payment.

This bill would establish that any contract between a health insurer or its contracted vendor and a health care provider for the provision of health care services to a plan enrollee shall not contain restrictions on methods of payment from the health insurer or vendor to the health care provider in situations in which the only acceptable payment method is a credit card payment.

This bill would establish that prior to initiating payments, a health insurer or its contracted vendor must properly notify the health care provider.

This bill would establish that any clause contained in a contract in violation of these provisions shall be void.

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Subjects

Health Care Providers