Coverage for Out-of-network Ground Ambulance Emergency Services

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Coverage for Out-of-network Ground Ambulance Emergency Services; Requires certain health insurers & HMOs to reimburse nonparticipating & out-of-network ambulance service providers at specified rate for providing ground ambulance services; provides that certain payments by insured constitute accord & satisfaction, & release, of certain claims; prohibits certain cost-sharing responsibilities paid from exceeding certain amount; provides that ambulance service provider & certain claims are subject to certain provisions; requires small employer carrier to comply with certain provisions.

Every action

12 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Feb 5, 2025HouseFiled
2. Feb 12, 2025CommitteeReferred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee · House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
3. Feb 12, 2025CommitteeReferred to Commerce Committee · House Commerce Committee
4. Feb 12, 2025CommitteeReferred to Health & Human Services Committee · House Health & Human Services Committee
5. Feb 12, 2025CommitteeNow in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee · House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
6. Mar 4, 2025House1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
7. Mar 25, 2025CommitteeAdded to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee agenda · House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
8. Mar 27, 2025CommitteeFavorable by Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee · House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee16–0 vote
9. Mar 27, 2025CommitteeReported out of Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee · House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
10. Mar 27, 2025CommitteeNow in Commerce Committee · House Commerce Committee
11. May 3, 2025HouseIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
12. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Commerce Committee · House Commerce Committee

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Bradford Troy "Brad" YeagerR Primary sponsor · District 56