| This bill requires health care providers to notify insurers of |
| assignments of benefits and insurers to pay health care providers |
| directly when they have received notice of assignments of |
| benefits. If after receiving notice of an assignment of benefits |
| an insurer pays an insured's claim, the insurer must still pay |
| the related claim of the health care provider. An assignment of |
| benefits can not be revoked or amended without the written |
| permission of the health care provider. |