Montana § 30-14-2602 - Balance Billing Information -- Notification To Ambulance Companies

§ 30-14-2602. Balance Billing Information -- Notification To Ambulance Companies

Balance billing information -- notification to ambulance companies. (1) (a) Subject to one of the conditions under subsection (1)(b), an ambulance service licensed in this state may not submit to a consumer reporting agency information intended to affect a patient's credit report because the patient has not made full payment of a bill for ambulance services. (b) The prohibition under subsection (1)(a) is effective if: (i) the patient's insurer or health plan has paid for the ambulance services based on the in-network or out-of-network charges outlined in the patient's insurance plan; or (ii) an uninsured patient has paid toward the bill and filed with the attorney general's office a complaint regarding the bill as being an unfair trade practice because the bill is not based on usual and customary charges in the state. (2) An ambulance service that transfers a bill to a collection agency shall state that the collection agency may not report as delinquent to a consumer reporting agency a bill covered by subsection (1).