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Senate adopts hospital transparency amendment, passes reporting measure after divided debate
Summary
Senate Bill 718 — a hospital transparency bill — was amended on the floor to shift some reporting responsibilities and to require hospitals to post specified items on the West Virginia Health Care Authority website; the measure passed 22–12 after debate over redundancy, cost and utility of the data.
The West Virginia Senate passed Senate Bill 718, a hospital transparency measure, on March 31 by a vote of 22 yays to 12 nays after a contested floor debate and adoption of a strike‑and‑insert amendment.
On third reading the Senate approved an amendment offered by the senator from Jefferson that moved certain reporting duties from the Insurance Commissioner back to the West Virginia Health Care Authority, removed a requirement for audited financial statements and instead required specific components to be published on hospital web pages and on the Health Care Authority’s…
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