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SF 1162 Senate Long Description

1E Limiting health care provider charges to the uninsured, specifying certain notice requirements; limiting recourse by providers under health plan company or public health care plan agreements for recovery of amounts above the amounts specified in the evidence of coverage or other document as copayments or coinsurance for health care services; authorizing actions in district court for injunctive relief and damages for violations, authorizing recovery of costs, disbursements and reasonable attorney fees; providing grounds for disciplinary action against providers violating the provisions; authorizing attorney general investigations; specifying a certain income and asset limit; requiring and providing for the disclosure of certain hospital costs to the commissioner of health, specifying certain commissioner procedures identification requirements and providing for computation of the costs; requiring availability to the public on a comparative basis
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