Health Care Insurance Access
Access to Quality Health Care/Insurance
| Bills | Committee | Last action | Date |
| HB 10 - Marshall, R.G. - Individual health insurance coverage; resident of State not required to obtain, etc., policy. | (H) Committee on Commerce and Labor (S) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) | 04/21/10 |
| notes: Protects an individual's right and power to participate or to decline to participate in a health care system or plan. The bill prohibits any law that will infringe on an individual's right to pay for lawful medical services. The bill further prohibits the adoption of any law that imposes a penalty, tax, or fine upon an individual who declines to enter into a contract for health care coverage or to participate in a health care system or plan. | |||
| HB 11 - Marshall, R.G. - Health care services; peer utilization reviews on reconsideration of an adverse decision. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) | 04/11/10 |
| notes: Requires that a decision on reconsideration of an adverse decision in which it is determined that a health service was or is not medically necessary, and which may result in noncoverage of a health service, be made by a peer of the treating health care provider. Physician advisors and panels of other appropriate health care providers will no longer be permitted to decide requests for reconsideration. If the denied health service was recommended by a doctor of medicine, a peer of the treating health care provider shall be a physician who holds a nonrestricted license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth or under a comparable licensing law of another state and who maintains the same or similar scope of practice or specialty or subspecialty as the treating health care provider. | |||
| HB 258 - McClellan - Individual health insurance coverage; expands scope of who is eligible. | (H) Committee on Commerce and Labor (S) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225) | 04/07/10 |
| notes: Expands the scope of who is an eligible person for purposes of guaranteed availability of individual health insurance coverage regardless of health status to include persons whose most recent prior creditable coverage was under the Commonwealth's Medicaid plan. | |||
| SB 265 - Whipple - Hospice, home health care or personal care services; licensure for home care organizations. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) | 04/21/10 |
| notes: Amends hospice licensure standards to include the same exemptions applicable to home care organizations, and allows inspections of both types of facilities exempt from licensure. The bill also prohibits new home care organizations from being licensed until July 1, 2012, but allows the Commissioner of Health to issue a request for and accept applications for: (i) the establishment of home care organizations in federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas or (ii) home care organizations approved for payments for home health or personal care services by the Department of Medical Assistance Services prior to July 1, 2010 | |||