00                           SENATE BILL NO. 11                                                                           
01 "An Act requiring certain hospitals to make certain disclosures on patient billings."                                   
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 18.20 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                 
04            Sec. 18.20.078.  Patient billing disclosures.  A hospital licensed under                                   
05       AS 18.20.010 - 18.20.130 shall comply with the patient billing disclosure                                         
06       requirements of AS 45.45.940 if AS 45.45.940 applies to the hospital.                                             
07    * Sec. 2.  AS 45.45 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                    
08            Sec. 45.45.940.  Patient billing disclosures.  (a)  A hospital that receives                             
09       government money for the purchase, construction, repair, equipping, or operation of                               
10       the hospital shall disclose on each patient billing                                                               
11                 (1)  the price that the hospital charges other patients who pay                                         
12       negotiated rates for the same medical service item, including negotiated group and                                
13       government rates and individual discounts; and                                                                    
14                 (2)  an itemized description of the costs and components used to                                        
15       calculate the price of each medical service item on the patient billing, including the                            

01       cost subsidy for indigent individuals.                                                                            
02            (b)  In this section,                                                                                        
03                 (1)  "cost subsidy for indigent individuals" means the cost that is                                     
04       included in the charge for medical service items billed by the hospital to compensate                             
05       the hospital for the uncollected costs that the hospital incurs to provide medical service                        
06       items to indigent individuals;                                                                                    
07                 (2)  "government money" means money from a state or municipal                                           
08       governmental unit or the federal government, and includes money received by the                                   
09       hospital under AS 18.25 or AS 18.26;                                                                              
10                 (3)  "hospital" means a person licensed as a hospital under                                             
11       AS 18.20.010 - 18.20.130;                                                                                         
12                 (4)  "medical service item" includes a hospital room, medication,                                       
13       medical treatment, and medical supplies;                                                                          
14                 (5)  "negotiated rate" means a rate negotiated for a category of patients                               
15       by another person, including an insurer, but does not include a rate negotiated by a                              
16       patient or the patient's relatives directly with the hospital for the patient's own medical                       
17       service items;                                                                                                    
18                 (6)  "patient billing" means a billing for a patient that is provided to a                              
19       patient for a medical service item.