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HF 1155 Senate Long Description

Relating to insurance; eliminating the requirement for health maintenance organization notice to the commissioner of health of name and address changes of participating entities and of contracts or agreements duration and extending the time limit for notice to the commissioner of provider terminations; modifying certain provisions regulating health insurance network shadow contracting; requiring affirmative consent of health care providers to participate in a network under a category of coverage differing from the categories of coverage under existing contracts; requiring network organizations to provide providers declining to participate in a category of coverage the opportunity to participate in the category upon demographic or geographic need determination; requiring disclosure to the provider of changes in provider contracts; requiring nonprofit health service plan corporations and HMOs to provide certain information relating to participating providers to the commissioner of health upon request; establishing a task force on small business health insurance to study the health coverage market available to small businesses and to make recommendations to the legislature by a certain date on private market solutions to group health coverage accessibility and affordability problems, requiring the commissioners of commerce and health to assist the task force and specifying certain task force membership requirements; placing a moratorium on health plan or automobile insurance company managed care contracts with health care providers, defining managed care contract; prohibiting health plan companies with existing managed care contracts from extending the contracts to additional insurers during the moratorium; repealing certain health plan company action plan requirements (Ch. 170, 2001)