Kentucky
General Assembly

02/01/18	introduced in Senate
02/02/18	to Banking & Insurance (S)
02/06/18	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
02/07/18	2nd reading, to Rules
02/12/18	floor amendment (1) filed
02/13/18	floor amendment (2) filed
02/21/18	floor amendment (3) filed
02/22/18	floor amendment (4) filed
02/28/18	floor amendment (5) filed
03/02/18	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 5, 2018
03/05/18	3rd reading floor amendments (1) and (2) withdrawn passed 21-16 with floor amendments (3) (4) and (5)
03/06/18	received in House
03/12/18	to Banking & Insurance (H)
03/13/18	posted in committee

Amendment	Senate Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor	R. Girdler
Summary	Keep original provisions; amend the definition of provider to include similarly licensed pactitioners in other jurisdictions; include reference to billing requirements under the Workers' Compensation medical fee schedule; delete billing requirement for CPT codes; amend special application section to apply to losses incurred on or after the effective date of the act.
Index Headings	Effective Dates, Delayed - January 1, 2019 Health and Medical Services - Medical expense, motor vehicle insurance, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Medical expense, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Required security, basic reparation benefits, provider, definition of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Required security, basic reparation benefits, reasonably needed medical expenses, requirements for Motor Vehicles - Required security, basic reparation benefits, provider, definition of Motor Vehicles - Required security, basic reparation benefits, reasonably needed medical expenses, requirements for Physicians and Practitioners - Medical expense, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of

Amendment	Senate Floor Amendment 2
Sponsor	R. Girdler
Summary	Keep original provisions; amend the definition of provider to include similarly licensed practitioners in other jurisdictions; include reference to billing requirements under the Workers' Compensation medical fee schedule; delete billing requirement for CPT codes; amend special application section to apply to losses incurred on or after the effective date of the act; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.
Index Headings	Effective Dates, Delayed - January 1, 2019 Health and Medical Services - Medical expense, motor vehicle insurance, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Medical expense, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Required security, basic reparation benefits, provider, definition of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Required security, basic reparation benefits, reasonably needed medical expenses, requirements for Motor Vehicles - Required security, basic reparation benefits, provider, definition of Motor Vehicles - Required security, basic reparation benefits, reasonably needed medical expenses, requirements for Physicians and Practitioners - Medical expense, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of

Amendment	Senate Floor Amendment 3
Sponsor	W. Westerfield
Summary	Amend original provisions to amend the definition of provider to include similarly licensed practitioners in other jurisdictions; include reference to billing requirements under the Workers' Compensation medical fee schedule; include massage therapy in the definition of medical expenses; include charges for massage therapy performed in coordination with or out of a provider's business location; amend language determining when medical expenses are deemed medically necessary; delete billing requirement for CPT codes; amend special application section to apply to losses incurred on or after the effective date of the act; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.
Index Headings	Effective Dates, Delayed - January 1, 2019 Health and Medical Services - Medical expense, motor vehicle insurance, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Medical expense, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Required security, basic reparation benefits, provider, definition of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Required security, basic reparation benefits, reasonably needed medical expenses, requirements for Motor Vehicles - Required security, basic reparation benefits, provider, definition of Motor Vehicles - Required security, basic reparation benefits, reasonably needed medical expenses, requirements for Physicians and Practitioners - Medical expense, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of

Amendment	Senate Floor Amendment 4
Sponsor	S. Meredith
Summary	Amend to add definitions for current procedural terminology, international statistical classification of diseases, and usual and customary rate; amend the definition of medical expenses to limit them to the workers compensation fee schedule for providers that are not hospitals, and for providers that are hospitals to either the negotiated contractual fee between the hospital and a reparations obligor or 80% of the usual and customary rate; and create a new section of Subtitle 39 of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to collect information from health benefit plants regarding billed charges, and either to select a nonprofit to distribute the information to or to publish the information annually on its Web site; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019
Index Headings	Effective Dates, Delayed - January 1, 2019 Health and Medical Services - Medical expense, motor vehicle insurance, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Medical expense, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Required security, basic reparation benefits, provider, definition of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Required security, basic reparation benefits, reasonably needed medical expenses, requirements for Motor Vehicles - Required security, basic reparation benefits, provider, definition of Motor Vehicles - Required security, basic reparation benefits, reasonably needed medical expenses, requirements for Physicians and Practitioners - Medical expense, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of

Amendment	Senate Floor Amendment 5
Sponsor	R. Girdler
Summary	Amend original provisions to include in the definition of "medical expenses" charges incurred for nonmedical remedial treatment rendered in accordance with a recognized religious method of healing.
Index Headings	Effective Dates, Delayed - January 1, 2019 Health and Medical Services - Medical expense, motor vehicle insurance, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Medical expense, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Required security, basic reparation benefits, provider, definition of Insurance, Motor Vehicle - Required security, basic reparation benefits, reasonably needed medical expenses, requirements for Motor Vehicles - Required security, basic reparation benefits, provider, definition of Motor Vehicles - Required security, basic reparation benefits, reasonably needed medical expenses, requirements for Physicians and Practitioners - Medical expense, reparation benefits, billed charges, restriction of