Bill Information - History

An Act amending the act of March 20, 2002 (P.L.154, No.13), known as the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (Mcare) Act, further providing for declaration of policy, for powers and duties of the authority, for patient safety plans, for additional adjustments of the prevailing primary premium, for medical facility reports and notification, for the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Fund, for medical professional liability insurance by the joint underwriting association, for approval of medical professional liability insurers, for administrative definitions, for claims, for medical professional liability insurance, for cancellation of insurance policy and for reporting; providing for reports by hospitals and health care facilities and for voluntary contractual arbitration; further providing for annual report; further defining "nonparticipating health care provider" and "participating health care provider"; providing for public disclosure of information concerning physicians; extending patient safety standards to certain abortion facilities; establishing the Mcare Assessment Need Program; providing for fair medical bill payments to certain high risk health care providers and acute care institutions for care, treatments and services covered under health insurance policies; requiring health insurers to disclose fee schedules and all rules and algorithms relating thereto; requiring health insurers to provide full payment to physicians when more than one surgical procedure is performed on the patient by the same physician during one continuous operating procedure; and providing for functions of the Department of Health, for causes of action and for penalties.