House Journal: Page 1266: Wednesday, April 14, 1999

31   commissioner under paragraph "a" shall perform the

32   external review.  The parties may waive the five-day
33   period for objection if all parties agree to the
34   independent review entity selected by the commissioner
35   and inform the commissioner of their agreement.
36     1A.  The carrier or organized delivery system,
37   within three days after the selection of the
38   independent review entity that will be conducting the
39   external review, shall do both of the following:
40     a.  Provide any information submitted to the
41   carrier or".
42     5.  Page  10, line 27, by striking the letter "d."
43   and inserting the following:  "b".
44     6.  Page 10, lines 34 and 35, by striking the
45   words "independent review entity's" and inserting the
46   following:  "commissioner's".
Amendment H?1419 lost.
Osterhaus of Jackson offered the following amendment H?1173 
filed by him and Chapman of Linn and moved its adoption:
H-1173
 1     Amend Senate File 276, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 11, by inserting after line 22 the
 4   following:
 5     "6.  An enrollee's treating health care provider
 6   may apply for and shall receive reasonable
 7   compensation from the carrier or organized delivery
 8   system for time spent by the health care provider to
 9   supply information in support of an enrollee's request
10   for external review under this chapter."
Roll call was requested by Osterhaus of Jackson and Murphy of 
Dubuque.
On the question "Shall amendment H-1173 be adopted?" (S.F. 276)
	The ayes were, 44:
Bell	Bukta	Burnett	Cataldo
Chapman	Chiodo	Cohoon	Doderer
Dotzler	Drees	Falck	Fallon
Foege	Ford	Frevert	Grundberg
Holveck	Huser	Jochum	Kreiman
Kuhn	Larkin	Mascher	May
Mertz	Mundie	Murphy	Myers^
O'Brien	Osterhaus	Parmenter	Reynolds
Richardson	Scherrman	Schrader	Shoultz
Stevens	Taylor	Thomas	Warnstadt
Weigel	Whitead	Wise	Witt
	The nays were, 49:
Alons	Arnold	Barry	Baudler
Blodgett	Boal	Bradley	Brauns
Brunkhorst	Carroll	Cormack	Davis
Dix	Dolecheck	Drake	Eddie
Garman	Gipp	Greiner	Hahn
Hansen	Heaton	Hoffman	Holmes
Horbach	Houser	Huseman	Jager
Jenkins	Johnson	Kettering	Klemme
Larson	Lord	Martin	Millage
Nelson	Raecker	Rants	Rayhons
Siegrist	Sukup	Sunderbruch	Thomson
Tyrrell	Van Engelenhoven	Weidman	Welter
Mr. Speaker
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	Absent or not voting, 7:
Boddicker	Boggess	Connors	Jacobs
Metcalf	Teig	Van Fossen	
Amendment H?1173 lost.
Chapman of Linn offered amendment H?1172 filed by her and 
Osterhaus of Jackson as follows:
H-1172
 1     Amend Senate File 276, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 13, by inserting after line 21 the
 4   following:
 5     "In addition to an action to enforce the review
 6   decision, or the decision of the court on appeal, the
 7   enrollee shall have a cause of action against the
 8   carrier or organized delivery system for any further
 9   harm incurred after the rendering of the external
10   review decision or decision of the court on appeal,
11   and caused by any substantial noncompliance with the
12   external review decision or court decision by the
13   carrier or organized delivery system.  The carrier or
14   organized delivery system's failure to substantially
15   comply with an external review decision, or decision
16   of the court on appeal, within twenty-four hours of

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