PRINTER'S NO. 114

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No. 79 Session of 2007

        INTRODUCED BY TOMLINSON, PIPPY, RHOADES, GORDNER, WONDERLING,
           COSTA, FONTANA, BRUBAKER, RAFFERTY, GREENLEAF, ORIE, FERLO,
           BROWNE, EARLL, LOGAN, WAUGH AND BAKER, FEBRUARY 13, 2007

        REFERRED TO BANKING AND INSURANCE, FEBRUARY 13, 2007

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An
     2     act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and
     3     consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of
     4     insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and
     5     protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds
     6     associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and
     7     fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and
     8     supervision of insurance carried by such companies,
     9     associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by
    10     the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and
    11     repealing existing laws," providing for joint payment for
    12     emergency service organization.

    13     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    14  hereby enacts as follows:
    15     Section 1.  The act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known
    16  as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, is amended by adding a
    17  section to read:
    18     Section 635.2.  Joint Payment for Emergency Service
    19  Organization.--(a)  Whenever direct payment is made to an
    20  insured for a claim covered under a health insurance policy for
    21  a service performed by an emergency service organization, the
    22  payment shall be made jointly payable to the insured and the

     1  emergency service organization.
     2     (b)  The joint payment required under subsection (a) shall
     3  not apply in the following instances:
     4     (1)  Payment is made under terms of the health insurance
     5  policy in the single name of a provider or emergency service
     6  organization.
     7     (2)  Evidence of prepayment to the emergency service
     8  organization is submitted as part of a claim for payment to the
     9  insurer, in which case payment shall be made in the single name
    10  of the insured.
    11     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.













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