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Admissible evidence should include the evidence listed below. Evidence of reasonable amounts billed to the claimant for medically necessary treatment or services.If the claimant receives services pursuant to a letter of protection and the provider then transfers the right to receive payment of the bill to a third party, evidence of the amount the third party paid or agreed to pay the provider for the right to receive payment is admissible.If there is no applicable Medicare rate for the services in question, 170% of the applicable state Medicaid rate is admissible. If the claimant does not have health care coverage or has healthcare coverage through Medicare or Medicaid, 120% of the Medicare reimbursement rate in effect on the date of the incurred medical treatment or services is admissible.If the claimant has health care coverage but foregoes that coverage and opts to obtain treatment under a letter of protection (or otherwise does not submit charges to the insurer), evidence of the amount the insurer would be obligated to pay the provider and the claimant’s portion of medical expenses under that contract or relevant regulation, had the claimant obtained treatment pursuant to the health care coverage, are admissible.If the claimant has health care coverage, evidence of the amount the insurer is obligated to pay the provider under the contract and the claimant’s portion of medical expenses under that contract or relevant regulation are admissible.Evidence depends on the type of health care coverage, if any, the claimant has: The initial billed amount is not admissible.

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If an insurer paid the full medical bill for past services, the amount paid by the insurer is the only amount admissible. Evidence of services that have already been satisfied is limited to the amount actually paid for those services, regardless of the source of such payment.

In a personal injury or wrongful death action, evidence admissible to prove the damage amounts for past or future medical care is limited as follows:.In a personal injury or wrongful death action, individual contracts between providers and authorized commercial insurers or authorized health maintenance organizations are not subject to discovery or disclosure and are not admissible into evidence.If two or more third-party claimants make competing claims arising out of a single occurrence, which in total exceed the insured’s available policy limits, the insurer does not commit bad faith by failing to pay all or any portion of the available limits to one or more of the third-party claimants if, within ninety days after receiving notice of the competing claims, the insurer either: If the trier of fact finds that the insured, the third-party claimant, or his or her representative did not act in good faith, the trier of fact may reasonably reduce the damages awarded against the insurer.Note this duty does not create a separate cause of action. The insured, the third-party claimant, and any representative of the insured or the claimant have a duty to act in good faith in furnishing information about the claim, making demands of the insurer, setting deadlines, and attempting to settle the claim.If the insurer fails to tender that amount within ninety days, then the statute of limitations is extended for an additional ninety days.If the insurer fails to tender that amount within ninety days, then fact that the insurer could have tendered that amount within the ninety days but did not is inadmissible in action to establish bad faith.An action for bad faith involving liability insurance, including one brought under common law, may not proceed if the insurer tenders the lesser of the amount demanded by the claimant or the policy limits within ninety days of receiving actual notice of a claim accompanied by evidence to support the amount at issue.Negligence is insufficient to constitute bad faith (including in common law cases).