An Act To Require Public Disclosure of Health Care Prices

Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §1718-A  is enacted to read:

§ 1718-A.  Consumer information regarding health care practitioner prices

Each health care practitioner, as defined in section 1711-C, subsection 1, paragraph F, shall maintain a price list of the most common services and procedures provided by the health care practitioner. For purposes of this section, the most common services and procedures include all services and procedures that were provided by the health care practitioner 25 or more times in the preceding calendar year. The health care practitioner shall post in a conspicuous place a statement about the availability of the price list and shall provide the price list upon request of a consumer.

Sec. 2. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 1, 2012.

summary

This bill requires a health care practitioner to maintain a price list of the health care practitioner's most common services and procedures and to provide the list to a consumer upon request effective January 1, 2012.