Prohibiting certain health carriers from excluding certain out-of-state health care professionals from participating as providers, via telehealth, under the carriers’ policies, plans, and contracts, and including effective date and applicability provisions

Sponsored by the House Human Resources Committee

Topics:Health care

Same legislation: HF 269

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2021
Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2021
Done: House committeeMarch 2, 2021
Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
Next: Senate committee
Next: Passes the Senate
Next: To the Governor
Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary Health insurance companies in Iowa would no longer be allowed to block out-of-state doctors from providing telehealth services. As long as these professionals are licensed in Iowa and meet the same standards as local doctors, insurance plans must let them participate. This change affects both the insurance companies and the patients who use them.¹

Read the official explanation

This bill prohibits certain health carriers (carriers) from excluding certain out-of-state health care professionals (professionals) from participating as providers, via telehealth, under a policy, plan, or contract offered by the health carrier if the professional is licensed in Iowa, is able to deliver health care services via telehealth in compliance with Code chapter 514C.34, and is able to satisfy the same criteria that the carrier uses to qualify in-state professionals, who hold the same license as the out-of-state professional, as providers. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to carriers that deliver, issue for delivery, continue, or renew a policy, contract, or plan in this state on or after the bill’s effective date.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§514C.34

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Lobbying

16 for · 1 against · 16 undecided · Who →

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