2019 House Bill 4460 ↩

Senate Roll Call 362: Passed

To require medical care providers to disclose to patients:<br> "Your health benefit plan may or may not provide coverage for all of the health care services you are scheduled to receive or the providers providing those services. You may be responsible for the costs of the services that are not covered by your health benefit plan.<br> The nonparticipating provider must provide a good-faith estimate of the cost of the health care services to be provided. A good-faith estimate does not take into account unforeseen circumstances, which may affect the cost of the health care services provided.<br> You also have a right to request that the health care services be performed by a provider that participates with your health benefit plan, and may contact your carrier to arrange for those services to be provided at a lower cost and to receive information on in-network providers who can perform the health care services that you need. <br> "You also have a right to request that the health care services be performed by a provider that participates with your health benefit plan, and may contact your carrier to arrange for those services to be provided at a lower cost and to receive information on in-network providers who can perform the health care services that you need."<br> See also House Bill 4459.