Health care debt and duty to provide care.

Summary

The bill would make it illegal for any Indiana health‑care provider to refuse necessary treatment solely because a patient or the patient’s responsible party owes, or is alleged to owe, health‑care debt. A violation would be treated as a deceptive act that the state attorney general could pursue under existing consumer‑protection law. It is intended to protect patients, including minors and incapacitated individuals, from being turned away for financial reasons.

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