S.2308: Prompt Payment of Health Benefits Claims Act of 2004

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Bill Summary

Prompt Payment of Health Benefits Claims Act of 2004 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to require group health plans and issuers of group health insurance to: (1) acknowledge receipt of claims within ten days; (2) notify claimants, within ten days, of any deficiency in submitted claims and of additional information necessary to correct the deficiency; (3) pay complete and uncontested...

(Source: Library of Congress)

Bill Actions

Date Description
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
April 8, 2004

Introduced in the Senate by Jon Stevens Corzine (D-N.J.)

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