PRINTER'S NO. 649
No. 598 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY ORIE, RAFFERTY, BROWNE, COSTA, KITCHEN, EARLL,
RHOADES, WAUGH, PIPPY AND LOGAN, MARCH 20, 2007
REFERRED TO BANKING AND INSURANCE, MARCH 20, 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," further providing for prompt
12 payment to health care providers of clean claims.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Section 2166(a) of the act of May 17, 1921
16 (P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921,
17 added June 17, 1998 (P.L.464, No.68), is amended to read:
18 Section 2166. Prompt Payment of Claims.--(a) A licensed
19 insurer or a managed care plan shall pay a clean claim submitted
20 by a health care provider within forty-five (45) days of receipt
21 of the clean claim[.] and where the clean claim involves
22 services provided by a licensed ambulance service or emergency
1 medical services company and is paid in the form of a negotiable
2 instrument, the negotiable instrument shall be made payable
3 solely to the licensed ambulance services or emergency medical
4 services company for such services.
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6 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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