HB 1081  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2350

10/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1081

 

AN ACT relative to insurance payments to ambulance providers.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Proulx, Hills. 15; Rep. Bernardy, Rock. 36

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires health insurance providers to directly reimburse ambulance service providers.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2350

10/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to insurance payments to ambulance providers.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Individual Health Insurance; Ambulance Service Provider Reimbursement; Direct Payment.  Amend RSA 415:6-q to read as follows:

415:6-q Reimbursement for Ambulance Service Providers.  Each insurer that issues or renews any individual policy, plan, or contract of accident or health insurance that constitutes health coverage under RSA 420-G:2, IX, and that provides benefits for medically necessary ambulance services shall reimburse the ambulance service provider directly [or by a check payable to the insured and the ambulance service provider] subject to the terms and conditions of the policy, plan, or contract. Nothing in this section shall preclude an insurer from negotiating with and subsequently entering into a contract with a non-participating ambulance provider that establishes rates of reimbursement for emergency medical services.

2  Group Insurance Ambulance Service Provider Reimbursement; Direct Payment.  Amend RSA 415:18-v to read as follows:

415:18-v Reimbursement for Ambulance Service Providers.  Each insurer that issues or renews any policy of group or blanket accident or health insurance that constitutes health coverage under RSA 420-G:2, IX, and that provides benefits for medically necessary ambulance services shall reimburse the ambulance service provider directly [or by a check payable to the insured and the ambulance service provider] subject to the terms and conditions of the policy, plan, or contract. Nothing in this section shall preclude an insurer from negotiating with and subsequently entering into a contract with a non-participating ambulance provider that establishes rates of reimbursement for emergency medical services.

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.