(Mar. 13, 2024) – House Bill 2825 – Concerns health and health care; relates to hospitals; requires hospitals to provide online pricing information for certain items and services; enacts consumer protection related to the Hospital Price Transparency Act; deems non-compliance for such an act to be an unfair or deceptive trade practice; provides for monetary penalties for hospitals found to be non-compliant with such act
–By Committee on Appropriations –Requested by Rep. Sutton

House Bill 2834 – Concerns the state health care benefits program; transfers officers, employees, powers, duties and functions relating to such program from the division of the state employee health benefits plan of the Department of Administration to the insurance department; establishes the commissioner of insurance as the chairperson of the Kansas State Employees Health Care Commission; provides all management functions of such commission shall be administered by the commissioner of insurance; eliminates a pilot program regarding employer contributions for certain children
–By Committee on Appropriations  –Requested by Rep. Sutton