TN SB2070

Prohibits health insurance entities from including patients with religious or medical vaccination exemptions in the calculation of healthcare providers' vaccination-related quality measures, ratings, or reimbursement tiers

Requires insurers to exclude exempt patients from provider vaccination rate performance metrics when providers submit documentation of the exemption

Bars insurers from terminating providers from networks, reducing reimbursement rates, or withholding incentive payments solely because providers treat patients who have declined vaccinations

Claims denied or reduced in violation of these provisions are classified as "clean claims" subject to interest penalties and remediation requirements under existing Tennessee law

Takes effect July 1, 2026, applying to insurance contracts entered into, renewed, amended, or delivered on or after that date