Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Insurance Committee on April 2, 2024. The 2024 session has ended.
2024 Regular Session
House Bill 1629
Ambulance service providers; provide for minimum rate of reimbursement under any policy of accident and sickness insurance.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE MINIMUM ALLOWABLE REIMBURSEMENT RATE UNDER ANY POLICY OF ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE TO A PARTICIPATING AMBULANCE SERVICE PROVIDER OR AN OUT-OF-NETWORK AMBULANCE SERVICE PROVIDER SHALL BE THE GREATER OF THE RATES CONTRACTED BETWEEN AN AMBULANCE SERVICE PROVIDER AND A COUNTY, MUNICIPALITY OR SPECIAL PURPOSE DISTRICT OR AUTHORITY, OR OTHERWISE APPROVED OR ESTABLISHED BY ORDINANCE OR REGULATION ENACTED BY ANY SUCH COUNTY, MUNICIPALITY OR SPECIAL PURPOSE DISTRICT OR AUTHORITY, OR THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE REIMBURSEMENT ALLOWED BY MEDICARE FOR SERVICES ORIGINATING IN RURAL AREAS; TO DEFINE THE TERM "AMBULANCE SERVICE PROVIDER" FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ACT; TO PROVIDE THAT IF AN AMBULANCE SERVICE PROVIDER'S BILLED CHARGES ARE LESS THAN THE MINIMUM ALLOWABLE REIMBURSEMENT RATE PROVIDED FOR IN THIS ACT, THEN SUCH MINIMUM ALLOWABLE REIMBURSEMENT RATE SHALL BE THE PROVIDER'S BILLED CHARGES; 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 House of Representatives
Sponsor
5 co-sponsors
Stacey Hobgood-Wilkes, Manly Barton, William Tracy Arnold, John W. Hines, Sr., Carl Mickens
Its course
February 19 to April 2, 2024, 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.
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.
In the House of Representatives Feb 19 – Mar 13
- Feb 19Referred to the House committee on Insurance
- Mar 5Reported from committee in the House: title sufficient, do pass
- Mar 13Passed the House
In the Senate Mar 14 – Apr 2
- Mar 14Sent to the Senate
- Mar 21Referred to the Senate committee on Insurance
- Apr 2Died in committee in the Senate