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Committee advances bill to ban referral pay and expand price-transparency portal; lawmakers pledge edits
Summary
Senate Bill 147, which would ban intra-network referral compensation and require public display of negotiated health-care prices and quality metrics, advanced out of committee after supportive testimony and discussion of implementation details.
The Senate Health Committee advanced Senate Bill 147 after testimony from business groups, hospitals and consumer advocates about physician referral payments and price transparency.
Sponsor Senator Bush described the bill as having two major components: a prohibition on compensation to a referring physician for steering patients within the same network, and a requirement for a publicly accessible portal that displays average negotiated charges, facility and provider quality metrics and contract-level physician reimbursement details. "Referring physicians cannot receive compensation or incentives from a healthcare entity or another physician within that same network for referring a patient," Senator Bush told the…
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