Amend CSSB 1 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered rider in Article IX of the bill, in Part 10, Health-Related Provisions (page IX-51):

Sec. 10.____.  Limitation on Nonemergency Health Care Expenditures. (a) A state agency or an entity that contracts with a state agency, including an independent administrator, manager, third-party administrator, and managed care organization, may not use, either directly or as a reimbursement, any money appropriated by this Act for a nonemergency health care service, good, or product provided by a hospital or other health care facility unless the hospital or facility publishes the cost for the service, good, or product on a publicly accessible Internet website or provides notice of the cost through a toll-free telephone hotline.

(b)  A hospital or other health care facility may not receive from a state agency or an entity that contracts with a state agency money appropriated by this Act unless the hospital or facility provides, before a patient's or purchaser's receipt of a nonemergency health care service, good, or product, notice to the patient or purchaser that the cost of the service, good, or product is available on a publicly accessible Internet website or through a toll-free telephone hotline, and the patient or purchaser has an opportunity to obtain the cost information.