00                             SENATE BILL NO. 266                                                                         
01 "An Act relating to reimbursement for non-network health insurance claims."                                             
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 21.36 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                  
04 Sec. 21.36.497. Non-network health insurance claims. A health care insurer                                            
05 shall reimburse a non-network health care provider for a health care service or supply                                  
06 in an amount that is at least 75 percent of the median reimbursement rate paid to a                                     
07 network health care provider for the same health care service or supply based on the                                    
08 health care insurer's network rates in the state at the time of delivery of the health care                             
09 service or supply. In this section, "health care insurer" has the meaning given in                                      
10       AS 21.54.500.