PRINTER'S NO. 1813
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1215
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY ARGALL AND J. WARD, JUNE 23, 2020
REFERRED TO BANKING AND INSURANCE, JUNE 23, 2020
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," in health insurance coverage parity
and nondiscrimination, providing for nondiscrimination of
chiropractic services and imposing penalties.
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 607-B. Chiropractic services.
(a) Prohibitions.--An insurer may not do any of the
following:
(1) Pay a chiropractor less for a service or procedure
identified under a particular physical medicine and
rehabilitation code, evaluation and management code or spinal
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