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Committee adds substance-use-treatment language to medical-debt definition in S.27 amendment
Summary
During markup the committee proposed and advanced an amendment to S.27 to broaden the definition of "health care services" for medical-debt protections to explicitly include substance use disorder treatment; proponents said the change prevents out-of-state credit reporting firms from classifying treatment as non-medical care.
Committee members on April 11 moved an amendment to S.27 to clarify the definition of medical debt and explicitly include substance use disorder treatment in the listing of health care services that may not be reported to consumer credit reporting agencies.
The change was offered as a single-instance amendment incorporating language used in S.28: "health care services means all supplies, care and services of a medical, dental, behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorder treatment, surgical, psychiatric, therapeutic, diagnostic, preventative,…
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