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SB334 • 2025

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 18 AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 18 AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action
2026-06-23
Official status
SS 1 for SB 334 - Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 18 AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 18 AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

What This Bill Does

  • AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 18 AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.
  • The Health Care Professional Access Act requires carriers to participate in uniform processes with specific timetables to create speed-to-market for health care professionals.
  • Currently, health care professionals may be employed for 6 months or more with no ability to collect insurer reimbursement due to lengthy carrier credentialing process.
  • Ensuring uniformity across carriers, as well as relevant procedural standards, will help attract and retain health care professionals in our state, enable movement between practices and the creation of new ones, and ensure nondiscrimination in credentialing decisions.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-23 Delaware General Assembly

    SS 1 for SB 334 - Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES

  2. 2026-06-16 Delaware General Assembly

    SS 1 for SB 334 - Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits

  3. 2026-06-11 Delaware General Assembly

    SS 1 for SB 334 - - Introduced and Placed With Bill

  4. 2026-06-11 Delaware General Assembly

    SS 1 for SB 334 - - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT

  5. 2026-06-11 Delaware General Assembly

    SS 1 for SB 334 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT

  6. 2026-06-11 Delaware General Assembly

    SS 1 for SB 334 - Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House

  7. 2026-06-10 Delaware General Assembly

    Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits

  8. 2026-06-10 Delaware General Assembly

    Substituted in Senate by SS 1 for SB 334

  9. 2026-05-28 Delaware General Assembly

    Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate

Official Summary Text

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 18 AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.
The Health Care Professional Access Act requires carriers to participate in uniform processes with specific timetables to create speed-to-market for health care professionals. Currently, health care professionals may be employed for 6 months or more with no ability to collect insurer reimbursement due to lengthy carrier credentialing process. Ensuring uniformity across carriers, as well as relevant procedural standards, will help attract and retain health care professionals in our state, enable movement between practices and the creation of new ones, and ensure nondiscrimination in credentialing decisions.

Under this Act, credentialing processes are limited to 45 days. This Act additionally provides for provisional credentialing, whereby reimbursement ability is provided even more quickly for certain health care professionals, including FQHCs, and in designated shortage areas which currently include mental health professionals statewide and primary and dental care in Kent and Susse