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REFERENCE TITLE: excessive health insurance claims; notification |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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HB 2874 |
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Introduced by Representative Liguori
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AN ACT
amending title 20, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 20-243; relating to the transaction of insurance business.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 20, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 20-243, to read:
20-243. Health care providers; excessive health care claims; notification; definitions
A. If a health insurer notices a trend in the number of health care insurance claims that are filed by a health care provider for services provided to patients on any given workday exceeds the number of patients that the health care provider could reasonably be expected to treat on that given workday, the health insurer shall notify the department and the board that licenses, registers or certifies the health care provider.
B. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Health care provider" means a person who is licensed, registered or certified as a health care professional under title 32.
2. "Health insurer" means a disability insurer, group disability insurer, blanket disability insurer, health care services organization, hospital service corporation or medical service corporation.