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Senate committee adopts A9 amendment to health-insurance bill, refers measure back to Commerce
Summary
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee adopted the A9 amendment to Sen. Klein's bipartisan insurance bill (Senate File 2477), approved amendments clarifying hospital closure notifications and insurer practices, and voted to send the bill back to the Commerce Committee for further consideration.
Senate Health and Human Services members voted to adopt an A9 amendment to Senate File 2477 and recommended the bill as amended be returned to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
The bill, presented by Sen. Mark Klein and Commerce Department staff, contains two main Commerce policy provisions and several Health Department changes. "We have 2 policy provisions, in our policy bill this year," Ashley Sedlet, health policy director in the Department of Commerce's insurance division, told the committee, summarizing Commerce provisions that include a late-enrollment penalty for Medicare Supplement open enrollment and a change allowing insurers to terminate individual plans rather than exit the market…
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