Delaware General Assembly

House Health & Human Development 12/18/20

The General Assembly has ended, the current status is the final status.

12/18/20

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Sen. S. McBride, Townsend, Brown

Reps. Baumbach, Bush, Carson, Dorsey Walker, Griffith, Heffernan, K. Johnson, Kowalko, Lambert, Minor-Brown, Mitchell, Morrison, Osienski, D. Short, Michael Smith, Spiegelman, K. Williams, Wilson-Anton
Sen. Ennis, Hansen, Paradee, Pettyjohn, Pinkney, Poore, Sokola, Sturgeon

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

This bill requires that inadvertent out-of-network services be included in individual and group health insurance policies as well as group and blank health insurance policies. This bill defines inadvertent out-of-network services are those services that are covered under a policy or contract of health insurances, but are provided by an out-of-network provider in an in-network facility, or when in-network health care services are unavailable or not made available to the insured in the facility. Inadvertent out-of-network services also includes laboratory testing ordered by an in-network provider but performed by an out-of-network laboratory.

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