HB59
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Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 216B.250 as a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; require health facilities and other health care providers to provide itemized health care statements in certain circumstances; specify the contents of the health care statements; require that health care statements contain information about price classifications and claims made with third-party payors; prohibit health facilities and providers from charging for the health care statements; establish means by which patients…
Introduced: January 7, 2026
Last action: January 14, 2026
Plain-language summary
This bill would require hospitals and other health care providers to give patients a detailed, itemized bill upon request, free of charge, showing exactly what they are being charged for and how prices were determined. It also prohibits providers from charging patients more than what was agreed upon or what is allowed under state or federal law. The Attorney General would be empowered to enforce these rules, and patients would have the right to take…
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