HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3836        FILED ON: 1/16/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 920

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to non-network ambulance service reimbursement ..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 176D of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after Section 3B the following new section:

                   Section 3C.  Payers have the following requirements for reimbursement for non-network ambulance service licensed pursuant to MGL c. 111C:                

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no insurance company, employee benefit trust, self-insurance plan, or other entity which is obligated to reimburse the individual or to pay for him or on his behalf the charges for the services rendered by a non-network licensed ambulance service shall pay those benefits to the individual when the claim form submitted to such entity clearly indicates that the individual’s rights to those benefits have been assigned to the licensed ambulance service.