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Committee clears House Bill 1004 conference report focused on hospital facility fees, insurer disclosures and PBM rebates
Summary
The Rules Committee approved a suspension to consider the conference committee report for House Bill 1004, a broad health-care measure directing OMB to study hospital facility rates, expanding insurer and PBM reporting, and requiring narrow-network employer plans; the motion passed 7-2.
The Rules Committee voted to make the conference committee report for House Bill 10 04 eligible for consideration after members agreed to suspend House rules.
Representative Carball, the bill’s conferee, described HB 10 04 as “a pretty comprehensive bill” that addresses managed-care and hospital assessment fees intended to leverage federal matching funds. “These fees are meant to leverage federal dollars for the dollars we pay in,” he said, adding that the legislation sets an OMB-directed study to identify median outpatient hospital facility rates for the state.
Carball reviewed several substantive changes in the conference committee report. Earlier provisions that would have capped facility fees and penalized hospitals that exceeded specified ratios to…
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