The bill, shielding public access to personally identifying information about individual insurance providers who issued denials for procedures, drugs, or treatments, emerged against the backdrop of the December shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Rep. John Blanton, the bill's sponsor, said hospitals would have access to the necessary details about insurance denials, "but as far as the patient and anyone outside the medical community, they would not have access to this information."
The measure protecting insurance providers and doctors involved in claim denials began as a bill focused on shielding judicial officials and their immediate family from having identifying information posted publicly. That language remains in the bill.
To have their information removed from public facing sites, those covered under the bill would have to submit a formal written request.