TITLE 48

MONOPOLIES AND TRADE PRACTICES

CHAPTER 3

IDAHO PATIENT ACT

48-308.  REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION OF RECEIPT. A patient shall be presumed to have received a consolidated summary of services or a final notice before extraordinary collection action three (3) days after the document has been sent by first class mail to the patient’s address confirmed by the patient during the patient’s last visit to the health care provider or as updated by the patient in subsequent written or electronic communications. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as precluding the patient from agreeing in writing to receive consolidated summaries of services or final notices before extraordinary collection action via email or other electronic means.

History:

[48-308, added 2020, ch. 139, sec. 1, p. 429; am. 2022, ch. 263, sec. 6, p. 849.]