Hospitals must prove compliance or face penalties
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What does SB732 want to accomplish?
SB732 helps protect patients by making sure hospitals follow pricing rules before they can collect money or take legal action.
Here’s a simple explanation of the bill:
- No Collection Actions: Hospitals in Oklahoma cannot take certain actions to collect money from patients if they were not following the rules about price transparency when the patient got their care.
- Price Transparency Laws: These are rules that hospitals have to follow about showing clear and accurate prices for their services.
- Patient Rights: If a hospital wasn’t following these rules, patients can sue the hospital. If the hospital is found guilty, they have to:
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- Refund any money the patient paid.
- Pay a penalty to the patient.
- Stop any legal actions they took to collect the money.
- Fix any bad credit reports related to the debt.
- Compliance Standards: The hospital’s compliance with federal rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be checked to decide if they were following the price transparency laws.