HB 2415 Summary

• Requires health care entities that refuse certain services based on religious beliefs to adopt a written policy listing all excluded health care services and provide this list to patients or their representatives before treatment begins.

• Mandates health care entities disclose to state and federal regulatory agencies all health care services they will not provide based on religious beliefs, and requires state agencies to amend application processes for health care reimbursement programs to include this disclosure requirement.

• Requires health care entities to disclose excluded services when applying for any state grant related to health care services.

• Requires health plan providers and insurers to provide enrollees with a list of network health care entities that will not provide certain services based on religious beliefs, post this information on their websites, and receive disclosure lists from health care entities within 12 months.

• Known as the "Patient's Right to Know Act."