PRINTER'S NO. 2846
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1194
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY MENTZER, B. MILLER, GREINER, ZIMMERMAN, RYAN,
KAUFER, JOZWIAK, TURZAI, BRIGGS, MEHAFFIE, BROWN, FEE,
SANKEY, MIHALEK, CALTAGIRONE, IRVIN, ULLMAN, BARRAR, VITALI,
KLUNK, GILLEN, ISAACSON, LONGIETTI, FARRY, ROTHMAN, GLEIM,
LAWRENCE, DUNBAR, SCHLOSSBERG, KAUFFMAN, READSHAW, THOMAS,
EMRICK, SCHROEDER, HOHENSTEIN, OTTEN, SCHLEGEL CULVER,
SAYLOR, KINSEY, LEWIS, RAVENSTAHL, HAHN, GABLER, MARKOSEK,
BOBACK, MULLINS, SAPPEY, COX, KNOWLES, GROVE, HARKINS,
NESBIT, O'MARA, WHITE, D. MILLER AND JAMES, NOVEMBER 14, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, NOVEMBER 14, 2019
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An
act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and
consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of
insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and
protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds
associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and
fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and
supervision of insurance carried by such companies,
associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by
the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and
repealing existing laws," in quality healthcare
accountability and protection, further providing for
definitions, for responsibilities of managed care plans,
providing for preauthorization standards and for
preauthorization costs, further providing for continuity of
care, providing for step therapy protocols, further providing
for required disclosure, for operational standards and
providing for preauthorization and adverse determinations,
for appeals, for access requirements in service areas, for
uniform preauthorization form, for preauthorization
exemptions and for data collection and reporting; and making
an editorial change.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
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