HB 1190 - DIGEST

     Does not intend providers' billing practices to be evaluated under rules not clearly in place and publicized to providers at the time the bill was prepared.

     Finds that the public-private partnership necessary to provide services to recipients of public assistance and medically indigent persons will be jeopardized if there is not scrupulous fair play on the part of both parties.  That fair play includes having easy to understand billing rules applied prospectively only.