PENNSYLVANIA, April 21 - PRINTER'S NO. 644

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

596

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, J. WARD, SCAVELLO, PITTMAN, VOGEL,

SCHWANK, YUDICHAK AND HUTCHINSON, APRIL 21, 2021

REFERRED TO BANKING AND INSURANCE, APRIL 21, 2021

AN ACT

Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An

act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and

consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of

insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and

protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds

associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and

fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and

supervision of insurance carried by such companies,

associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by

the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and

repealing existing laws," in quality health care

accountability and protection, providing for chiropractors.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. The act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known

as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, is amended by adding a

section to read:

Section 2167. Chiropractors.--(a) A health carrier may not

pay a chiropractor less for a service or procedure identified

under a particular physical medicine and rehabilitation code,

evaluation and management code or spinal manipulation code than

it pays any other licensed provider under the same or

substantially similar code. A carrier may not circumvent this

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