republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/hb-1583.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health plans and ambulance service providers."
description: "Amends the law requiring a health plan operator to fairly negotiate rates and terms with any ambulance service provider willing to become a participating provider with respect to the operator's health plan. Provides that, if negotiations between an ambulance service provider and a health plan operator that occur after June 30, 2022, do not result in the ambulance service provider becoming a participating provider with respect to the health plan, each party, beginning May 1, 2023, is required to provide to the department of insurance (department) a written notice: (1) reporting the unsuccessful conclusion of the negotiations; and (2) stating the points that were discussed in the negotiations but on which agreement was not reached. Requires the department, not later than May 1, 2024, to submit to the legislative council and the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services a report summarizing the written notices that the department has received from ambulance service providers and health plan operators."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1583"
citation: "Indiana HB 1583 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH generally", "HEALTH", "Health Care Costs; Health Insurance", "INSURANCE generally", "INSURANCE", "State Department and Agencies", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan Dernulc", "Jon Ford", "Robert Heaton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e6cb7eb-fcdc-42f1-9496-9c02423f1d3e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1583"
source_hash: "85cf2bf2043b1fe64b639c68651823f97e13a7b61d13a188da001a171a393db3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana HB 1583 (2023) — Health plans and ambulance service providers.

Amends the law requiring a health plan operator to fairly negotiate rates and terms with any ambulance service provider willing to become a participating provider with respect to the operator's health plan. Provides that, if negotiations between an ambulance service provider and a health plan operator that occur after June 30, 2022, do not result in the ambulance service provider becoming a participating provider with respect to the health plan, each party, beginning May 1, 2023, is required to provide to the department of insurance (department) a written notice: (1) reporting the unsuccessful conclusion of the negotiations; and (2) stating the points that were discussed in the negotiations but on which agreement was not reached. Requires the department, not later than May 1, 2024, to submit to the legislative council and the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services a report summarizing the written notices that the department has received from ambulance service providers and health plan operators.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1583/versions/HB1583.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1583/versions/HB1583.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1583/versions/HB1583.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1583/versions/HB1583.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1583 - Ford Jon - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dan Dernulc — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Robert Heaton — primary (person)
- Alan Morrison — coauthor (person)
- Brad Barrett — coauthor (person)
- Rita Fleming — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Authored by Representative Heaton
- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Representatives Barrett and Fleming added as coauthors
- **2023-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** Representative Morrison added as coauthor
- **2023-02-14** Senate sponsor: Senator Ford Jon
- **2023-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 135: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 310: yeas 47, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04** Senator Dernulc added as second sponsor
- **2023-04-05** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 92 `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e6cb7eb-fcdc-42f1-9496-9c02423f1d3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).