§5-116-A. Debts owed to health care providers








1. Definition of "health care provider."  
For purposes of this section, "health care provider" means a physician, health care
practitioner, hospital, clinic, clinical laboratory, health care facility or other
person or facility that provides health care services and is licensed or registered
by the State.


[
2009, c. 526, §1 (NEW)
.]








2. Agreement by or on behalf of health care provider.  
An agreement by a health care provider, or by a debt collector on behalf of a health
care provider, to accept partial payments over time without assessment of interest
from a consumer on a debt for health care services is not a consumer credit transaction
as defined by section 1-301, subsection 12.


[
2009, c. 526, §1 (NEW)
.]








3. Disclosure of available payment arrangements.  
A health care provider shall notify a consumer of the availability of any payment
arrangements offered by the health care provider to satisfy a debt for health care
services.


[
2009, c. 526, §1 (NEW)
.]








4. Rehabilitation of defaulted medical debt.  
A payment arrangement offered by a health care provider must provide a consumer the
opportunity to reasonably rehabilitate, cure or remedy a defaulted status of a debt
for health care services under terms and conditions established by the health care
provider, including, but not limited to, making payment in full or making 6 consecutive
monthly payments in a timely manner.


[
2009, c. 526, §1 (NEW)
.]





SECTION HISTORY

2009, c. 526, §1 (NEW).