SB 1290 Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners.

Summary
Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose accident and sickness insurance policies or subscription contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a physician assistant to provide equal coverage for such services when rendered by a licensed athletic trainer when such services are performed in an office setting. Additionally, the bill requires the reimbursement or payment for a service provided by certain licensed practitioners listed in the bill to be in the same amount as the reimbursement or payment paid under such policy or subscription contract to a licensed physician performing such service in the area served.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 8, 2025 Last action Feb 3, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced Commerce and Labor Substitute · 3 edits
MINOR
SB 1290 was amended from its original introduced version to a Commerce and Labor Substitute version. The primary substantive change is the addition of a new requirement that reimbursement for behavioral health services (as defined in § 37.2-100) must be paid at the same rate as a licensed physician. This change was added to subsections C of both § 38.2-3408 and § 38.2-4221. The bill also includes formatting changes typical of committee substitute bills, including page headers and line numbering.
Scope change
The bill's scope regarding which services receive parity reimbursement was expanded to explicitly include behavioral health services, requiring them to be reimbursed at the same rate as physician services.
SCOPE

Added explicit requirement that behavioral health services must receive reimbursement at the same rate as physician services in both accident and sickness insurance policies and nonstock corporation subscription contracts.

TECHNICAL

Changed the bill title from relating to 'health insurance' to specifically including 'behavioral health services' in the description.

Added page headers, line numbers, and committee substitute formatting typical of bills processed through the Commerce and Labor Committee.

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Committee
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Jan 8, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Creigh Deeds
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