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MN HF2550
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/27/2012
Primary Sponsor
Jim Abeler
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AI Summary
- Amends Minnesota Statutes section 144.651, subdivision 11 regarding patient rights in health care facilities
- Establishes that patients and residents have the right to care with reasonable regularity and continuity of staff assignment within facility policy limits
- Prohibits entities responsible for paying medical bills from requesting, pressuring, coercing, or attempting to cause psychiatric patients to transfer hospitals based on network participation status
- Protects psychiatric patients from being transferred due to insurance network considerations by their payers
Legislative Description
Health care bill of rights continuity of care provision modified.
Last Action
Introduction and first reading, referred to Health and Human Services Finance
2/27/2012
Committee Referrals
Health and Human Services Finance2/27/2012
Full Bill Text
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