BILL · 2021–22 SESSION

HB 1862: Health care facility fees

Concerning facility fees charged by certain health care providers.

Summary

  • Prohibits charging a facility fee, except when services are provided to a patient on the hospital's campus.
  • Defines "campus" to include the hospital's main buildings and the physical area immediately adjacent to the main buildings, including a provider-based clinic that is within 250 yards of the main buildings.
  • Eliminates the exemption of clinics exclusively providing laboratory, testing, therapy, pharmacy, or educational services.
  • Provides an exemption for critical access hospitals and sole community hospitals.

From the House Bill Analysis 2022 (HB 1862), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 10, 2022
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Nicole Macri (D-43)
Introduced
January 10, 2022 in the House
Last action
January 10, 2022
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to facility fees charged by certain health care providers;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Nicole Macri (D-43)

4 co-sponsors (4 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. First reading, referred to Appropriations.
  2. Prefiled for introduction.

HB 1862 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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