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Committee keeps health-carrier credentialing bill in play, discusses insurer payment for mandated training
Summary
Members discussed House Bill 275, a health-care bill concerning insurer-mandated training; committee moved the measure forward onto the consent calendar after brief discussion that training details were not specified in testimony.
The House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee advanced House Bill 275, a health-carrier credentialing bill, and placed it on the consent calendar after a committee vote. Representative Burrows moved and Representative Petousek seconded committee action.
Committee members discussed whether the training that prompted the bill was mandated by federal rules or by insurers and whether insurers should pay for courses they require. Committee members noted that testimony did not specify the exact content of the training. Representative Burrows summarized the issue: the bill addresses situations where an insurer requires training (stemming from federal requirements) and the sponsor had advocated that insurers should pay for such training. Committee members said they did not have the training details and that testimony did not clearly describe the training content.
After brief discussion the committee voted to place the bill on the consent calendar.
