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Senate advances bill to track balance billing and surprise medical bills

Utah State Senate · March 3, 2020
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Summary

Senate Bill 155, described by the sponsor as a stakeholder‑driven compromise, would centralize data on balance billing and surprise billing and include air ambulance incidents as part of ongoing study; the third substitute passed and was recorded as receiving 27 yea votes, 0 nay, 2 absent.

Salt Lake City — The Utah Senate advanced Senate Bill 155, a third substitute the sponsor described as the product of extended stakeholder negotiations aimed at reducing balance billing and surprise medical bills.

Sponsor Senator Maine described the bill as establishing a central data repository so regulators and stakeholders can identify where…

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