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Read. Follow. Verify.Missouri House Bill 2570 Prohibits Health Insurers from Imposing Anesthesia Time Limits or Excluding Anesthesia Time in Payments
Last action · March 5, 2026: HCS Reported Do Pass (H)Sponsors: David Tyson Smith and 1 other
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What This Bill Would Do
Missouri House Bill 2570 prohibits health carriers and health benefit plans from enforcing time limits on the payment of anesthesia services or excluding any from payment calculations, with an emergency clause for immediate implementation.
Determines how health insurance plans and state programs compensate anesthesia practitioners, affecting billing practices and reimbursement rates across medical and surgical procedures in Missouri.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Health carriers and health benefit plans
Must comply with prohibitions against imposing time limits on anesthesia payments and excluding anesthesia time from payment calculations.
Anesthesia practitioners
Payment calculations for their services are protected from insurer time limits and time exclusions.
MO HealthNet enrollees and state health plan participants
Their state-sponsored health coverage is explicitly subjected to the new anesthesia payment coverage standards.
Key Facts
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
8 actions- Mar 5, 2026HouseCommitteeHCS Reported Do Pass (H)
- Mar 5, 2026HouseCommitteeHCS Voted Do Pass (H)
- Mar 5, 2026HouseExecutive Session Completed (H)
- Mar 5, 2026HousePublic Hearing Completed (H)
- Feb 24, 2026HouseCommitteeReferred: Health and Mental Health(H)
- Jan 8, 2026HouseFloorRead Second Time (H)
Show 2 earlier actions
- Jan 7, 2026HouseIntroducedRead First Time (H)
- Dec 22, 2025HouseIntroducedPrefiled (H)
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Inclusion of State Programs in Insurance Mandates
The bill explicitly expands the reach of private insurance billing regulations to encompass public programs such as MO HealthNet and the Missouri consolidated health care plan.
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Sources
house.mo.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance75How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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