Bill Text - SB693 (2020)

Allowing health maintenance organizations to write preferred provider organization products for Medicare Advantage.


Revision: Jan. 15, 2020, 8:40 a.m.

SB 693  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2808

01/06

 

SENATE BILL 693

 

AN ACT allowing health maintenance organizations to write preferred provider organization products for Medicare Advantage.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Sherman, Dist 24; Sen. Morgan, Dist 23; Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Sen. Kahn, Dist 10; Rep. Marsh, Carr. 8

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill authorizes health maintenance organizations to write preferred provider organization products for Medicare Advantage.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2808

01/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT allowing health maintenance organizations to write preferred provider organization products for Medicare Advantage.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Powers of Health Maintenance Organizations.  Amend RSA 420-B:7 by inserting after paragraph X the following new paragraph:

XI.  The power to act as a health care insurer as defined in RSA 420-C:2, IV only when offering a Medicare Advantage plan in accordance with 42 U.S.C. sections 1395w-21 through1395w-29.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.