Insurance Subcommittee

TN - Representative Esther Helton-Haynes (R)

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TN - Representative Scott Cepicky (R)

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TN - Representative Kip Capley (R)

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TN - Representative Caleb Hemmer (D)

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TN - Representative Gary Hicks (R)

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TN - Representative Timothy Hill (R)

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TN - Representative Justin Lafferty (R)

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TN - Representative Brock Martin (R)

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TN - Representative Bo Mitchell (D)

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TN - Representative Tim Rudd (R)

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TN - Representative Iris Rudder (R)

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TN - Representative Bryan Terry (R)

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TN - HB55 Health Care - As introduced, removes the ability of a health insurance carrier to disregard an insured's assignment of health insurance benefits to an out-of-network facility-based physician under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-120.

TN - HB57 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes various changes to the Insurance Holding Company System Act, including a requirement to file an annual group capital calculation, requirements regarding the use and filing of results of a liquidity stress test, and other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 11.

TN - HB152 TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB186 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to make available to healthcare providers on the department's website the prescribed claims forms for reporting by healthcare providers. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB314 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes changes to the law regarding assignment of benefits to a healthcare provider; removes provisions of law relative to the collection of out-of-network charges by healthcare facilities. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-120 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB332 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to contract with at least one managed care organization that is partnered with a provider participation entity; establishes eligibility requirements for such entities to contract with TennCare; prohibits TennCare from choosing managed care organizations through a request for proposal or competitive bidding process beginning January 1, 2024; and makes other various changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB355 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires that a health benefit plan that provides coverage for a screening mammogram must provide coverage for diagnostic imaging and supplemental breast screening without imposing a cost-sharing requirement on the patient. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB360 TennCare - As introduced, extends, from 60 days to 12 months, the period of postpartum coverage for pregnant women who meet certain medical assistance eligibility requirements in accordance with provisions of the American Rescue Plan. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB362 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to conduct an annual review of all medications and forms of treatment for lupus, and services for enrollees with a diagnosis of lupus that are eligible for coverage under the medical assistance program; requires the bureau to solicit and consider input from the public when conducting the annual review; requires an annual report to be made to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB371 TennCare - As enacted, prohibits the state from filing certain claims seeking recovery against the estates of deceased ABLE account beneficiaries. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 8.

TN - HB404 TennCare - As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB416 TennCare - As introduced, directs the bureau to establish, by January 1, 2024, a statewide program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to provide comprehensive, integrated acute and long-term care services for qualifying frail, elderly individuals who require nursing facility levels of care; sets minimum program enrollment limits; authorizes the director to seek any federal waiver the director deems necessary to establish the program. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB425 TennCare - As introduced, extends eligibility for medical assistance under the TennCare program to a woman for a period up to 12 months after the date on which the womans pregnancy ends in live birth if the child meets the eligibility requirements for the CoverKids program. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB493 TennCare - As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - HB498 Health Care - As enacted, exempts a patient receiving an initial behavioral health evaluation via telehealth from the requirement that a patient have an in-person encounter with a healthcare services provider, the healthcare services providers practice group, or the healthcare system within 16 months prior to an interactive visit in order to establish a provider-patient relationship for purposes of telehealth; allows a physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe drugs and who provides ...

TN - HB530 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse air-based ambulance service providers, along with ground-based ambulance service providers, at a rate of no less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB567 Welfare - As introduced, requires TennCare to create and implement a three-year pilot program to provide remote maternal health services to eligible TennCare recipients; authorizes the TennCare director to seek a federal waiver as necessary to implement the pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB576 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to establish a pilot program during the 2024-2025 fiscal year to provide payment for doula care services for pregnant women enrolled in the TennCare program who meet certain criteria; authorizes the director to seek a federal waiver to implement the pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB607 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, makes changes relative to the coverage of complex rehabilitation technology (CRT) by health insurance entities and managed care organizations. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB608 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, removes the requirement that an individual applying for an insurance producer license take a prelicensing course of study for a line of authority; removes other references to the prelicensing education requirement for applicants for an insurance producer license. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB609 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, authorizes the issuance of an insurance policy that an employer may offer to an employee for the purpose of providing family leave benefits. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 56.

TN - HB610 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, authorizes a credit against premium taxes in the amount of the charges, expenses, and fees paid by insurance companies for certain examinations performed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - HB626 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health benefit plans to provide certain coverage for prosthetic devices. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB756 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, prohibits, as an unfair claims settlement practice, an auto insurer from directing a body shop to repair a motor vehicle without first providing the insured with written notice of the insured's right to approve the type of body parts to be used in the repair of the motor vehicle and an opportunity to select the type of body parts to be used; specifies that the notice requirement only applies in the five years after the model year of the motor vehicle...

TN - HB757 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse in-network dental services providers for a dental service provided to a TennCare recipient at a rate that is no less than the amount identified as the national median fee for that dental service according to the most recent survey of national dental fees by the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute; authorizes the bureau to reimburse out-of-network dental services providers. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB762 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to ensure that providers of adult day care services are reimbursed based upon the amount of services that are authorized on behalf of the eligible adult, and without regard for the eligible adult's attendance or absence at the time the services are scheduled to be provided. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB801 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, permanently reenacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act," which was repealed on January 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - HB815 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires certain individual and group health insurance policies to provide coverage of a continuous glucose monitor for a person with diabetes who is insulin-dependent and is covered by the policy. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB874 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, prohibits a health insurance issuer or a managed health insurance issuer from engaging in certain conduct. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56, Chapter 7; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB885 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Prior Authorization Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB887 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, authorizes an insurer that offers a health benefit plan to deliver notices and documents related to health, vision, and dental coverage electronically to its insureds with consent. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB893 TennCare - As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2024; makes certain changes to the methodology used to calculate the assessment. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB895 TennCare - As enacted, clarifies that the Medical Assistance Act of 1968 does not require a vendor, healthcare provider, or telehealth provider group that provides healthcare services exclusively via telehealth to have a physical address or site in this state in order to be eligible to enroll as a vendor, provider, or provider group for the medical assistance program. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB916 TennCare - As introduced, extends, from January 15 to February 1 of each calendar year, the due date of the annual report required to be submitted by the bureau of TennCare to certain legislative committees on the use and cost of opioids and other controlled substances in the prescription drug program for the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB920 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, extends from two weeks to 30 days the period of time a pharmacist or pharmacy must be provided written notice prior to a covered entity, pharmacy benefits manager, the state or a political subdivision of the state, or a party representing such entity begins an initial on-site audit for an audit cycle. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB949 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, authorizes a dental service plan corporation to limit participation in a plan that is providing or managing dental benefits for the impoverished uninsured on behalf of, or as required by, any governmental entity, only if such excluded provider is given written notice, the specific reason for such exclusion, and an opportunity for appeal. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB953 TennCare - As introduced, clarifies that protocols developed using evidence-based medicine and authorized by the bureau be made available to TennCare providers and managed care organizations on the bureau's website; requires updates or revisions to such protocols be published not later than 48 hours from the time such updates or revisions are authorized by the bureau. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB991 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, prohibits an insurer of homeowner's insurance, renter's insurance, or insurance that covers a manufactured or mobile home from making certain changes to or refusing to issue a policy based solely on the specific breed or mixture of breeds of a dog that lives or is otherwise cared for on the property to which the policy applies. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB1010 Codes - As introduced, lowers the population threshold, from 25,000 to 20,000, below which two or more cities may agree to jointly engage one building inspector. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - HB1074 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires reimbursement payments from insurers to chiropractors for services rendered to be based on the same methodology for the calculation of payments to medical doctors for the provision of services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 63, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1087 TennCare - As introduced, directs the bureau to establish a temporary TennCare benefits program to provide medical assistance on a temporary basis to certain individuals who do not qualify for enrollment in TennCare, CoverKids, or a successor program; requires the bureau to submit a waiver to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services by December 31, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1163 Health Care - As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to make the standardized forms for health care insurance claims, developed by the commissioner along with the commissioner of health, available to insurance companies for free on the department of commerce and insurance's website. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.

TN - HB1173 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an insurer to provide the names of the beneficiaries of a decedent's life insurance policy, the benefit amount under the policy, and other information requested by a funeral director or funeral establishment that contacts the insurer on behalf of the decedent's family. - Amends TCA Title 35; Title 56 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1213 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes revisions to the Tennessee Right to Shop Act. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB1215 Managed Care Organizations - As introduced, prohibits any managed care organization that contracts with the bureau of TennCare to provide medical assistance from providing reimbursement or coverage for a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a person to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex, or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between a person's sex and ass...

TN - HB1309 DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, prohibits a life insurance provider from canceling a life insurance policy based on genetic information, from requesting or requiring genetic testing as a condition of insurability, and from accessing the genetic data of an individual without consent. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 27.

TN - HB1318 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an insurance company to provide written notice to a claimant at the same time payment of a settlement of a third-party liability claim is made by the insurance company. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1401 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Affordability is Access Act," which requires individual and group health plans to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives that have been approved for use by the federal food and drug administration. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53 and Title 56.

TN - HB1402 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1432 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Preexisting Conditions Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB1443 TennCare - As introduced, removes the prohibition on the governor expanding optional enrollment in the TennCare program pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71.

TN - HB1503 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to conduct a study on the implementation of the federal No Surprises Act and its implications for physicians and healthcare facilities in this state; revises present law concerning network adequacy. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1583 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires an individual who resides in this state and owns a firearm to maintain liability insurance in an amount of no less than $300,000 to insure the individual against losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the individual's firearm; requires the individual to provide documentation of the insurance upon request by a party that suffers losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the individual's firearm; specifies that a vio...

TN - HB1611 TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1650 TennCare - As introduced, extends, from February 1, to March 1, the annual date by which the bureau of TennCare and the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities are required to issue an annual joint report to the insurance committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate on the status of the Katie Beckett program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB1691 TennCare - As introduced, requires compliance with federal law regarding third-party liability. - Amends TCA Section 71-05-117.

TN - HB1723 TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2024," which requires each covered hospital licensed as of July 1, 2024 to pay an annual coverage assessment for FY 2024-2025 of a certain percentage of the covered hospital's annual coverage assessment base. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1737 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, caps the total amount that a health insurance carrier can require a covered patient with diabetes to pay for a 30-day supply of insulin at no more than $35; caps the total price that a person who supplies prescription insulin drugs into or within this state for use by a patient with diabetes can charge for a 30-day supply of insulin at no more than $35. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56, Chapter 7; Title 63 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1738 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of providing gun violence prevention services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1810 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits the denial of accident and sickness insurance policy benefits when there is a loss due to accidental fentanyl poisoning. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - HB1826 TennCare - As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of rapid whole genome sequencing when certain clinical criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB1877 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires hospitals and physicians to accept electronic insurance cards as valid proof of an insurance policy, plan, or contract. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB1939 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits an individual from being considered ineligible to receive payment for providing TennCare medicaid-reimbursed home- and community-based long-term care services to an individual eligible to receive such services on the basis that the individual providing care and the individual receiving care reside in the same home. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1956 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires the department of finance and administration, in collaboration with the department of health and the bureau of TennCare, to apply for federal approval to import prescription drugs from Canada; requires the department to notify the governor, speaker of the house of representatives and speaker of the senate upon receipt of federal approval; requires the department of finance and administration to develop a plan to implement a program within six mon...

TN - HB1984 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires managed health insurance issuers that offer healthy benefit cards to demonstrate that the healthy benefit cards are accepted at all retail food establishments that meet certain criteria within a given geographic area. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - HB1985 Health Care - As introduced, expresses the intent that the department of finance and administration, in coordination with the departments of health and mental health and substance abuse services, give priority to efforts that facilitate the expansion of a health care safety net to the uninsured that also supports federally designated rural health clinics using a sliding fee scale payment model. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-148.

TN - HB1988 TennCare - As introduced, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - HB1992 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires a health benefit plan to provide coverage and reimbursement for prosthetic and custom orthotic devices in a manner that equals or exceeds the levels of coverage and reimbursement for such devices under the federal medicare program and is no more restrictive than coverage of and reimbursement for other medical devices provided under the health benefit plan. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB1998 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for emergency services and 100 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for nonemergency services. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB2008 Education - As introduced, requires organizers of public school athletic events to accept cash as a form of payment for admission to the event or the purchase of concessions or other items for sale at the event; prohibits organizers of public school athletic events from charging a cash price that exceeds the price if paid by credit or debit card; designates a violation to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Titl...

TN - HB2010 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases, from $50,000 to $100,000, the amount of the bond running to the state that every insurance company doing a workers' compensation business in this state must furnish to the commissioner of commerce and insurance; increases, from $100,000 to $200,000, the amount that such a company has on deposit with another state in which the company is organized and domiciled and from which a certificate of that state's commissioner o...

TN - HB2022 TennCare - As introduced, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2039 Taxes - As introduced, authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits equal to unreimbursed TennCare costs for eligible healthcare providers that provide healthcare services to TennCare recipients; allows a refund to be issued in lieu of a tax credit on the condition that the refund be used to make a charitable contribution. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2048 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, changes from three to one the number of incorporators or organizers a captive insurance company that is incorporated or organized in this state must have when being organized; deletes the requirement that the incorporator or organizer of the captive insurance company must be a resident of this state when being organized. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB2051 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2064 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, on or after January 1, 2025, requires a health carrier that issues or renews a health insurance policy, health benefit plan, or contract of accident or health insurance providing benefits for medical or hospital expenses to provide coverage for the expenses of standard fertility services for patients with iatrogenic infertility; excludes employer-sponsored health plans. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2076 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, establishes procedures for recoupment of overpayments made to a healthcare provider by certain health insurance entities. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2104 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires that every health insurance policy or health benefit plan issued in this state that provides medical and surgical benefits as well as mental health or substance use disorder benefits must cover an annual mental health wellness examination. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2147 Health Care - As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration, or the commissioner's designee, to make available to the public on the department's website any proposed budget document or other financial publication that lists complex rehabilitation technology benefits separately if the document or publication establishes a change in reimbursement for complex rehabilitation technology. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2148 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, authorizes a funeral director or funeral establishment providing funeral services for a deceased person insured or believed to be insured under a contract of life insurance to request certain information about the life insurance contract. - Amends TCA Title 35; Title 56 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2170 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurer, pharmacy benefits manager, or third-party administrator from changing or conditioning the terms of health plan coverage based on availability of financial or other product assistance for a prescription drug; establishes certain procedures for calculating an enrollee's contribution to an applicable cost sharing requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2211 TennCare - As introduced, establishes TennCare minimum and maximum reimbursement rate levels for rural hospitals and requires that the reimbursement rate is based on the rural hospital's current federal fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2213 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits health carriers, health benefit plans, or utilization review organizations from using step therapy protocols as a basis to restrict, delay, or deny coverage for a prescription drug or drug regimen for the treatment of cancer and associated conditions if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2214 TennCare - As introduced, requires that on and after July 1, 2025, a minor who is enrolled in TennCare medicaid or the CoverKids program remains eligible for TennCare medicaid and the CoverKids program until the minor reaches 18 years of age; prohibits the bureau from subjecting the minor to a redetermination of eligibility or disenrollment except under certain circumstances; requires the director to submit any necessary federal waiver request by December 31, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB2242 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, specifies that only middle school students enrolled in the lowest grade level at a middle school are required to take one course in computer science; authorizes the board to promulgate rules to effectuate the act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2259 TennCare - As introduced, directs the governor to seek a new TennCare waiver within 180 days of the effective date of this act to provide medical assistance coverage for the same population groups and services as the Insure Tennessee proposal; clarifies that the amendment takes effect upon federal approval. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2281 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an applicant for an insurance producer license for title insurance to complete a pre-licensing course of study that consists of a minimum of 30 hours of course work. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB2322 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires certain health benefit plans to include coverage for treatment services required for and related to treatment of an acquired brain injury; prohibits health benefit plans from imposing certain limitations on the number of days of acute care, post-acute care, and covered inpatient care for acquired brain injuries; makes additional changes related to such coverage. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 56.

TN - HB2330 Health Care - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion; requires the governor to ensure that during such negotiation, an emphasis is placed on increasing resources and health care in rural and marginalized communities in this state. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2374 Health Care - As introduced, requires a health insurance carrier to provide certain information used by the health insurance carrier to calculate payments paid to the healthcare provider within 10 calendar days, rather than 10 business days, of receipt of a written request from a healthcare provider. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2424 TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2445 TennCare - As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of funding and what medical items and services the patient receives, even if such determination does not result in the least costly course of diagnosis or treatment. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB2461 TennCare - As introduced, directs the bureau to amend existing or promulgate new rules by December 31, 2024, to allow for the reimbursement of qualifying remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests utilizing established CPT codes for such procedures when the patient is in a residence or other off-site location that is separate from the patient's provider and the same standard of care is met. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2463 TennCare - As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2484 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, mandates private insurance coverage for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2490 TennCare - As introduced, establishes separate reimbursement rates for ground-based rural ambulance services and urban ambulance services provided to TennCare recipients; allows for certain rural ambulance service providers to receive emergency medical services equipment grants. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB2543 Health Care - As introduced, prohibits an ambulance service that has exclusive rights to provide emergency services within a county, municipality, or geographic area from charging rates that are unreasonable, excessive, or based on rates charged by entities that classify individuals as in-network or out-of-network for services provided for calls received by an emergency dispatch center operated by such county, municipality, or geographical area that has given the exclusive rights to the ambul...

TN - HB2549 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, on or after January 1, 2025, requires a health carrier that issues or renews a health insurance policy, health benefit plan, or contract of accident or health insurance providing benefits for medical or hospital expenses to provide coverage for the expenses of standard fertility services for patients with infertility as the result of cancer treatment; excludes employer-sponsored health plans. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and ...

TN - HB2557 TennCare - As introduced, requires that on and after July 1, 2025, a minor child who is enrolled in TennCare or the CoverKids program remains eligible for TennCare or the CoverKids program until the minor child reaches six years of age; prohibits the bureau from subjecting the minor child to a redetermination of eligibility or disenrollment except under certain circumstances; requires the director to submit any necessary federal waiver request by December 31, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB2573 Psychologists - As introduced, expands the facilities that can qualify for third-party reimbursement from TennCare, a managed care plan, or third-party payor for certain services; expands the persons who can render such reimbursable services to an employed psychologist with a provisional or temporary license, psychology intern, and postdoctoral fellow, rather than just for services rendered by a psychologist with a provisional or temporary license. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 an...

TN - HB2599 Health Care - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2629 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, specifies that an individual who has been a licensed insurance producer since January 1, 2004, rather than January 1, 1994, is not required to complete continuing education requirements for renewal of the insurance producer license. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2631 TennCare - As introduced, directs the bureau to establish a temporary TennCare benefits program to provide medical assistance on a temporary basis to certain individuals who do not qualify for enrollment in TennCare, CoverKids, or a successor program; requires the bureau to submit a waiver to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services by December 31, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2635 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtained at one time by an insured person, unless the insured requests a smaller supply or the prescriber instructs that the insured must receive a smaller supply. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2701 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits a TennCare enrollee from staying in an emergency department or emergency room facility for more than 72 hours without medical necessity; imposes penalties on TennCare and managed care organizations for causing an enrollees extended emergency department or emergency room facility stay. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2779 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid for mental health prevention and treatment pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71.

TN - HB2840 State Inmates - As introduced, increases the education good time sentence reduction credit from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - HB2857 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, removes from the definition of "provider-based telemedicine" the requirement that the healthcare service provider or the provider's practice group or healthcare system have an established provider-patient relationship that is documented by an in-person encounter within 16 months prior to the interactive visit. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-1003.

TN - HB2879 Real Property - As introduced, restricts certain real property transactions by certain foreign aliens and entities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 20 and Title 66, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2903 Opioids - As introduced, requires the division of TennCare to ensure that a non-opioid drug approved by the United States food and drug administration for the treatment or management of pain is not disadvantaged or discouraged with respect to coverage relative to an opioid or narcotic drug for the treatment or management of pain on the preferred drug list; makes other changes regarding the use of opioids and non-opioid drugs. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2905 Insurance, Liability - As introduced, expands the conditions under which certain contracts between a taxpayer and tax preparation service company are not considered contracts of insurance to include circumstances when the tax preparation service company obtains a contractual liability insurance policy or posts a bond. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB2906 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, establishes a 72-hour waiting period before a health benefit plan may require, as a condition of further coverage, that a provider promptly contact the health insurer for prior authorization for continuing treatment and other care for an enrollee. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2921 TennCare - As introduced, requires all TennCare health benefit plans to provide coverage and reimbursement for mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the plans provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of alcoholism and drug dependence. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2940 TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2954 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act," which requires health insurance coverage for the early detection of prostate cancer for men who meet certain risk criteria or age thresholds. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2962 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires certain insurance policies or contracts that cover pregnancy and maternity benefits to cover benefits of perinatal educational courses, at no cost, for mothers, fathers, and one other person designated by the mother; requires insurance providers required to provide such benefits to provide information about such courses on their website. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.