SB4075 - Tennessee: Hospitals And Health Care Facilities

Companion Bill HB4053. Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - Creates joint committee to study the effects of litigation on the nursing home industry. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 68. Fiscal Summary for SB4075 / *HB4053Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB4075 / *HB4053 This bill requires that any tort action related to the provision of long-term care health-related services be brought as a medical malpractice action. This bill also authorizes long-term care facilities to require any patient, as a condition of admission, to enter into an arbitration agreement. The facility may not discharge a patient, once admitted, for failure to enter into such an agreement. This bill provides the following in regard to a long-term care tort action: (1) There is no limit on the amount of economic loss that [...]

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