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CT SB00416
Bill
Status
4/13/2022
Primary Sponsor
Insurance and Real Estate Committee
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AI Summary
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Prohibits health insurance carriers and health care providers from including all-or-nothing clauses that require inclusion of all provider members in a network or demand contracts with provider affiliates as a condition of participation.
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Prohibits anti-steering clauses that restrict carriers from encouraging enrollees to use competitor providers or offering incentives to use specific providers.
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Prohibits anti-tiering clauses that restrict carriers' ability to create tiered networks or require all provider members be placed in the same tier.
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Requires health carriers to provide participating providers with at least 90 days' advance written notice of material changes to contracts, provisions, manuals and policies for contracts entered after July 1, 2022.
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Effective January 1, 2023; declares contracts containing prohibited anticompetitive clauses null and void while remaining contract clauses remain in effect.
Legislative Description
An Act Promoting Competition In Contracts Between Health Carriers And Health Care Providers.
Last Action
House Calendar Number 382
4/14/2022