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Committee concurs on insurer-notice and telehealth bills; declines to concur on insulin-analog expansion
Summary
The Health and Government Operations Committee voted to concur with Senate language on House Bill 848 (adverse decision notices) and House Bill 869 (telehealth prescribing rules), and voted not to concur with the Senate on House Bill 970 concerning insulin analogs; members cited cost differences as the rationale for withholding concurrence.
The Health and Government Operations Committee handled multiple short items and recorded concurrence on two health-insurance-related measures while declining to concur on a third.
House Bill 848, as amended, requires private review agents to post the criteria and standards used in utilization review on member and provider webpages, clarifies voicemail and email response timing (two business days unless a shorter period applies), and alters effective dates for certain provisions. The…
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