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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 2276: Relating to direct health care agreements, and including effective date and applicability provisions

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on May 24, 2022. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to direct health care agreements. Current law allows certain primary care health professionals to enter into a direct primary care agreement with a patient to provide certain primary care health services for a set service charge that covers a specific period of time. The bill broadens the types of health care professionals that may enter into a direct health care agreement to include health care professionals that perform health care services. “Health care services” is defined in the bill as services for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease, and includes dental care services.

Sponsors

Commerce committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 8 for, 8 against

For: Americans For Prosperity; Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa; Easterseals Iowa; Epilepsy Foundation Iowa; Iowa Athletic Trainers Society; Iowa Physician Assistant Society; Nomi Health; Polk County Medical Society

Against: Common Good Iowa; Federation of Iowa Insurers; Full Circle Services, Inc.; Iowa ACEs 360; Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Medica; United Healthcare Services, Inc.; Wellmark, Inc.

In plain words

  1. February 15, 2022Filed in the Senate
  2. February 15, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
  3. March 22, 2022Withdrawn

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SF2276