HF 4774

as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 03/11/2024 02:15pm

A bill for an act
relating to health care; requiring health care providers to provide patients with an
itemized description of billed charges for health care services and goods; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 144.591.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 144.591, is amended to read:

144.591 DISCLOSURE OF deleted text begin HOSPITAL deleted text end new text begin HEALTH CARE new text end CHARGES.

new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Definition. new text end

new text begin For purposes of this section, "health care provider" means:
new text end

new text begin (1) a hospital, including a hospital designated as a critical access hospital;
new text end

new text begin (2) an outpatient surgical center;
new text end

new text begin (3) a health clinic or health professional office; or
new text end

new text begin (4) a health professional who is licensed or registered by the state to provide health care
services within the professional's scope of practice.
new text end

new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Itemized description of billed charges. new text end

deleted text begin (a) deleted text end Each deleted text begin hospital, including hospitals
designated as critical access hospitals, shall deleted text end new text begin health care provider must new text end provide to each
deleted text begin discharged deleted text end patient deleted text begin within 30 calendar days of discharge deleted text end an itemized description of billed
charges for deleted text begin medical deleted text end new text begin the health care new text end services and goods the patient received deleted text begin during the hospital
stay deleted text end new text begin from the health care provider new text end . new text begin The health care provider must provide the itemized
description of billed charges to the patient within 30 calendar days after the date the health
care services and goods were provided to the patient, except that a hospital must provide
the itemized description of billed charges to the patient within 30 calendar days after the
patient's discharge from the hospital. new text end The itemized description of billed charges may include
technical terms to describe the deleted text begin medical deleted text end new text begin health care new text end services and goods if the technical terms
are defined on the itemized description with limited medical new text begin or dental new text end nomenclature. The
itemized description of billed charges must not describe a billed charge using only a medical
new text begin or dental new text end billing code, "miscellaneous charges," or "supply charges."

new text begin Subd. 3. new text end

new text begin Coordination. new text end

new text begin A hospital, outpatient surgical center, health clinic, or health
professional office may compile the itemized descriptions of billed charges for the services
and goods provided to a patient by individual health professionals employed by or under
contract with the hospital, outpatient surgical center, health clinic, or health professional
office, and may provide the patient with a single itemized description of billed charges from
that hospital, outpatient surgical center, health clinic, or health professional office.
new text end

new text begin Subd. 4. new text end

new text begin No charge to patient. new text end

deleted text begin (b) deleted text end A deleted text begin hospital deleted text end new text begin health care provider new text end may not bill or
otherwise charge a patient for the itemized description of billed charges.

new text begin Subd. 5. new text end

new text begin Provision of itemized description. new text end

deleted text begin (c) deleted text end A deleted text begin hospital deleted text end new text begin health care provider new text end must
provide an itemized description new text begin of billed charges to the patient new text end by secure email, via a secure
online portal, or, upon request, by mail.

new text begin Subd. 6. new text end

new text begin Exemptions. new text end

deleted text begin (d) deleted text end This section does not apply to patients enrolled in Medicare,
medical assistance, new text begin or new text end the MinnesotaCare program, or new text begin to patients new text end who receive health care
coverage through an employer self-insured health plan.

Sec. 2. new text begin REVISOR INSTRUCTION.
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new text begin The revisor of statutes shall recodify Minnesota Statutes, section 144.591, as Minnesota
Statutes, section 62J.815.
new text end