Wisconsin 2025 Regular Session Status: To Executive Bipartisan · 4 R · 1 D cosponsors

SB 822 — Relating to: allowing discounts for prompt payment of health care fees.

Last action — Published 4-3-2026

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been sent to the executive. Introduced January 14, 2026. It awaits signature.

Next likely step: the executive signs it into law or issues a veto.

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Likely to advance 90% · high confidence

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Odds of enactment

Moderate

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  • To Executive

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 19 sponsors

    1 primary, 18 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (4 R · 1 D) — cross-party backing.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 1 recorded vote so far.

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Summary

An Act to renumber and amend 146.905 (1); to amend 146.905 (2); to create 146.905 (1g) and 146.905 (3) of the statutes;

Bill Text

How this bill changes current law

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The bill allows health care providers to offer discounts for prompt payment without violating existing prohibitions on reducing coinsurance or deductibles.

  • 146.905 (1)

    In this section:

    Renames the section to (1r), which defines the prohibition against reducing coinsurance or deductibles.

  • 146.905 (2)

    Subsection (1) does not apply if payment of the total fee would impose an undue financial hardship on the individual receiving the service or product. → Subsection (1r) does not apply if payment of the total fee would impose an undue financial hardship on the individual receiving the service or product.

    Clarifies that the exception for undue financial hardship applies to the renamed subsection (1r).

  • 146.905 (1g) In this section: (a) 'Disability insurance policy' has the meaning given in s. 632.895 (1) (a). (b) 'Health care provider' has the meaning given in s. 146.81 (1) (a) to (p).

    Defines terms for the section regarding disability insurance policies and health care providers.

  • 146.905 (3)

    (a) It is not a violation of sub. (1r) or s. 628.34 for a health care provider to discount a fee owed by an individual who is covered under a disability insurance policy if all of the following are satisfied: (1) The health care provider does all of the following: (a) Offers the discount for prompt payment for products or services but without regard to the issuer of the individual’s disability insurance policy or the individual’s reason for seeking the product or service for which the payment is being made. (b) Notifies the issuer of the disability insurance policy of the prompt payment discount policy of the health care provider by posting the most up-to-date version of the discount policy on the health care provider’s website. (c) Provides a discount in an amount that bears a reasonable relationship to the amount that the health care provider avoids in collection costs by prompt payment and is no more than 15 percent of the fee owed. (2) The health care provider does not do any of the following: (a) Shift the cost of the discount to any other individual or payer. (b) Include the discount in a price reduction agreement with a 3rd-party payer, except as allowed under state or federal law. (c) Unless required by law, publicly advertise the discount. Merely posting a discount policy on a health care provider’s website pursuant to subd. 1. b. does not constitute a public advertisement under this subd. 2. c. (d) Provide the discount prior to the service being scheduled or outside of the health care provider’s ordinary course of dealing with patients. Under this subd. 2. d., the ordinary course of dealing with patients includes when a patient registers for or schedules a service, a patient pays their cost-sharing amount, the health care provider sends a written statement to a patient by mail or electronic delivery, or financial arrangements are made between the health care provider and the patient.

    Creates provisions allowing health care providers to discount fees for prompt payment under specific conditions, exempting them from existing prohibitions.

Action History

  1. Published 4-3-2026

  2. Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 147

  3. Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026

  4. Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  5. Report correctly enrolled

  6. LRB correction

  7. Received from Assembly concurred in

  8. Ordered immediately messaged

  9. Read a third time and concurred in

  10. Rules suspended

  11. Ordered to a third reading

  12. Read a second time

  13. Made a special order of business at 11:33 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14

  14. Referred to committee on Rules

  15. Received from Senate

  16. Ordered immediately messaged

  17. Read a third time and passed

  18. Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  19. Ordered to a third reading

  20. Read a second time

  21. Senator Ratcliff added as a coauthor

  22. Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  23. Available for scheduling

  24. Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  25. Executive action taken

  26. Public hearing held

  27. Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  28. Introduced by Senators Cabral-Guevara, Feyen, Marklein, Spreitzer and Stafsholt; cosponsored by Representatives Moses, Swearingen, Behnke, Callahan, Kreibich, Kurtz, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, Novak, O'Connor, VanderMeer, Zimmerman and Knodl

Sponsors

  • Moses · Cosponsor
  • Swearingen · Cosponsor
  • Behnke · Cosponsor
  • Callahan · Cosponsor
  • Kreibich · Cosponsor
  • Kurtz · Cosponsor
  • Murphy · Cosponsor
  • Mursau · Cosponsor
  • Nedweski · Cosponsor
  • Novak · Cosponsor
  • Rachael Cabral-Guevara · Primary
  • Dan Feyen · Cosponsor
  • Howard Marklein · Cosponsor
  • Mark Spreitzer · Cosponsor
  • Rob Stafsholt · Cosponsor
  • O'Connor · Cosponsor
  • VanderMeer · Cosponsor
  • Zimmerman · Cosponsor
  • Knodl · Cosponsor

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1 sponsors · 18 co-sponsors · 113 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (18)

Not signed on (113)

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 822 do?
An Act to renumber and amend 146.905 (1); to amend 146.905 (2); to create 146.905 (1g) and 146.905 (3) of the statutes;
Who sponsors SB 822?
SB 822 is sponsored by Moses, Swearingen, Behnke, Callahan, Kreibich, Kurtz, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, Novak, Cabral-Guevara, Rachael (Republican), Feyen, Dan (Republican), Marklein, Howard (Republican), Spreitzer, Mark (Democrat), Stafsholt, Rob (Republican), O'Connor, VanderMeer, Zimmerman, and Knodl.
What is the current status of SB 822?
This bill has been sent to the executive. Introduced January 14, 2026. It awaits signature.
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