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Committee advances bill requiring insurers to disclose payments to providers on written request within 30 days
Summary
House Bill 170 (LC520621) would require insurers to provide payment information to providers within 30 days of a written request; sponsor described the change as improving transparency when attorneys accept assignment of benefits and payments are redirected.
House Bill 170, which would require insurers to provide, within 30 days, payment information to a licensed health-care provider upon written request concerning payments made for provider services, was advanced by the House Insurance Committee on a voice vote.
Representative Matheak, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure corrects placement in the code (moving it into Title 33) and is intended to increase transparency when attorneys accept assignment of benefits and providers lack clear accounting of dispersed funds. The sponsor described common practice in which providers discover discrepancies late in annual accounting and said the bill will give providers an “extra oomph” to track where money was paid.
“This simply provides that if a licensed health care provider makes a written request to an insurer for payment that's been made to a provider's for provider services that it will be provided in 30 days,” Representative Matheak said, noting counsel advised the bill belongs in Title 33. He described the change as a transparency improvement rather than a substantive new mandate.
No public commenters appeared to testify for or against the bill during the committee hearing. Members moved and seconded a do-pass recommendation by voice vote with no recorded opposition.
The sponsor will provide the required paperwork to advance the bill.
