republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-172.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.	This Bill limits a health insurer’s right to overpayment recovery to two years from the date of the original payment. The time limit does not apply where there is fraud or other intentional misconduct, when overpayment recovery is initiated by a self-insured plan, or where required by a federal or state plan. The bill also requires 30 days’ notice to healthcare providers regarding an attempt to recover overpayment as well as requiring insurers to have policies and procedures allowing challenge to the alleged overpayment. This bill affects all lines of health insurance including both individual and group policies.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 172	Delaware HB 172 (149)	bill		enacted	Brian J. Bushweller Bryon H. Short Trey Charles Paradee	1	11	2	2017-05-11	2018-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/2a589112-f721-4e5e-8579-5bbc2e38909c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25773	fe69a6d7d014b705b75ab4fe4966f6b07654699df1b756fa7be26d8539e2b1fc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 172 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

This Bill limits a health insurer’s right to overpayment recovery to two years from the date of the original payment. The time limit does not apply where there is fraud or other intentional misconduct, when overpayment recovery is initiated by a self-insured plan, or where required by a federal or state plan. The bill also requires 30 days’ notice to healthcare providers regarding an attempt to recover overpayment as well as requiring insurers to have policies and procedures allowing challenge to the alleged overpayment. This bill affects all lines of health insurance including both individual and group policies.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian J. Bushweller — primary (person)
• Bryon H. Short — primary (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-05-11 Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 Amendment HA 1 to HB 172 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 10 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-28 Amendment HA 2 to HB 172 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-30 Amendment HA 1 to HB 172 - Stricken in House
• 2017-06-30 Amendment HA 2 to HB 172 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-07-12 Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-01-17 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-01-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2018-03-16 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2a589112-f721-4e5e-8579-5bbc2e38909c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).