Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Insurance Committee on February 5, 2013. The 2013 session has ended.
2013 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2590
Health insurance; prohibit issuance of policy restricting insurer from assigning benefits to provider.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 83-9-3, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OF HEALTH INSURANCE POLICIES THAT RESTRICT AN INSURER FROM ASSIGNING BENEFITS TO A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER; TO AMEND SECTION 83-9-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT IF AN INSURED PROVIDES AN INSURER WITH WRITTEN DIRECTIONS THAT THE BENEFITS PROVIDED BY A HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY BE PAID TO A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER RENDERING SERVICES, THEN THE INSURER SHALL PAY DIRECTLY THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER; TO PROVIDE THAT THE PAYMENT SHALL BE CONSIDERED PAYMENT IN FULL TO THE PROVIDER, WHO MAY NOT BILL OR COLLECT FROM THE INSURED ANY AMOUNT ABOVE THAT PAYMENT, OTHER THAN THE DEDUCTIBLE, COINSURANCE, COPAYMENT OR OTHER CHARGES FOR EQUIPMENT OR SERVICES REQUESTED BY THE INSURED THAT ARE NONCOVERED BENEFITS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
January 21 to February 5, 2013, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateJan 21 to Feb 5 · stopped15 days
InsuranceJan 21 to Feb 5 · stopped15 days
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.