PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES Fair Health Care Billing: Provide for Legislative Findings and Intent; Provide for Standards of Certain Health Benefit Plan Contracts and Provide for Obligations and Fees Thereunder; Prohibit Certain Collections and Legal Actions; Provide for Applicability; Require Information Regarding Laboratory Tests and Provide for Implementation and Immunity Relating Thereto

Authors

Jeffrey S. Bazinet

Document Type

Peach Sheet

Abstract

The Act provides that all contracts between physicians and insurers offering managed care plans must be in writing and that neither insurers nor patients shall be liable for any medical fees which exceed contracted-for amounts The Act further provides that physicians may not collect or attempt to collect fees for which an insurer or a patient are not liable. The Act also gives the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners the authority to discipline a physician who fails to timely inform a patient that the physician has received the patient's laboratory results.

Recommended Citation

Jeffrey S. Bazinet, PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES Fair Health Care Billing: Provide for Legislative Findings and Intent; Provide for Standards of Certain Health Benefit Plan Contracts and Provide for Obligations and Fees Thereunder; Prohibit Certain Collections and Legal Actions; Provide for Applicability; Require Information Regarding Laboratory Tests and Provide for Implementation and Immunity Relating Thereto, 18 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (2001).
Available at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol18/iss1/15