PRINTER'S NO. 644
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
596
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, J. WARD, SCAVELLO, PITTMAN, VOGEL,
SCHWANK, YUDICHAK AND HUTCHINSON, APRIL 21, 2021
REFERRED TO BANKING AND INSURANCE, APRIL 21, 2021
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 quality health care
accountability and protection, providing for chiropractors.
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 2167. Chiropractors.--(a) A health carrier may not
pay a chiropractor less for a service or procedure identified
under a particular physical medicine and rehabilitation code,
evaluation and management code or spinal manipulation code than
it pays any other licensed provider under the same or
substantially similar code. A carrier may not circumvent this
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