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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana House Bill 452 Prohibits Health Insurers from Offering Financial Incentives or Penalties for Vaccinations
Last action · March 9, 2026: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance.Sponsor: Beryl Amedée
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What This Bill Proposed
Louisiana House Bill 452 prohibits s from paying financial incentives or bonuses to healthcare providers, or denying claims and imposing penalties, to encourage the administration of vaccinations.
The measure establishes statutory restrictions on how health insurers can structure financial arrangements with healthcare providers regarding vaccinations, applying to most medical expense policies and group plans in the state.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
healthcare providers
health coverage plans
Insurers are prohibited from offering financial rewards or imposing penalties to influence vaccination administration by providers.
Key Facts
- Health coverage plans are prohibited from paying financial incentives, bonuses, or amounts beyond the contracted reimbursement rate to influence healthcare providers to administer vaccinations.
- Health coverage plans are prohibited from denying or refusing to reimburse claims or imposing penalties with the intent to encourage vaccination administration.
- The term 'health coverage plan' includes hospital, health, or medical expense insurance policies, employee welfare benefit plans, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, and the Office of Group Benefits programs.
- Excepted benefits, limited benefit health insurance plans, and short-term policies with a term of less than twelve months are excluded from the definition of health coverage plan.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
- Feb 26, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 26, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance.
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy75Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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