THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY TOMLINSON, WONDERLING, GORDNER, GREENLEAF, BAKER, RAFFERTY, FONTANA, VANCE, BRUBAKER, ORIE, EARLL, BROWNE, WAUGH, ALLOWAY, EICHELBERGER, LOGAN, WOZNIAK, COSTA AND FERLO, JANUARY 30, 2009

REFERRED TO BANKING AND INSURANCE, JANUARY 30, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An

act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and

consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of

insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and

protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds

associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and

fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and

supervision of insurance carried by such companies,

associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by

the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and

repealing existing laws," providing for joint payment for

emergency service organization.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  The act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known

as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, is amended by adding a

section to read:

Section 635.4.  Joint Payment for Emergency Service

Organization.--(a)  Whenever direct payment is made to an

insured for a claim covered under a health insurance policy for

a service performed by an emergency service organization, the

payment shall be made jointly payable to the insured and the

emergency service organization.

(b)  The joint payment required under subsection (a) shall

not apply in the following instances:

(1)  Payment is made under terms of the health insurance

policy in the single name of a provider or emergency service

organization.

(2)  Evidence of prepayment to the emergency service

organization is submitted as part of a claim for payment to the

insurer, in which case payment shall be made in the single name

of the insured.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.