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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Senate Bill 822

Allowing discounts for prompt payment of health care fees

Topics: Hospitals and health care facilities, Insurance: Health, Medical service: Occupations, Nurses, Physician

Became law

The governor signed it on Apr 6, 2026. It's ⁠.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Jan 14, 2026

  2. Committee, passed

    Approved

  3. Senate vote, passed

    Passed Feb 11, 2026

  4. Assembly vote, passed

    Passed Feb 19, 2026

  5. Governor, passed

    Signed

  6. Law, here now

    2025 Wisconsin Act 147

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 6, 2026: “Published 4-3-2026”

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The same bill was also filed in the Assembly as AB 819. That version died when the session ended.

What it does

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill specifies that discounts for prompt payment do not violate prohibitions on reducing certain fees for health care services. Under current state law, a health care provider is prohibited from reducing or offering to reduce coinsurance or a deductible of an individual covered under a health insurance policy that is required under the terms of the policy, unless paying the amount would be an undue financial hardship to the individual. Under this bill, a discount offered by a health care provider to an individual covered under a health insurance policy is exempt from that prohibition if the discount satisfies all of the following: the health care provider offers the discount for prompt payment without regard to the issuer of the individual’s health insurance policy or the reason for the individual seeking the product or service; the amount of the discount bears a reasonable relationship to the amount that the health care provider avoids in collection costs by prompt payment but is no more than 15 percent of the fee owed; the health care provider notifies the issuer of the health insurance policy of the prompt payment discount policy but, unless required by law, does not publicly advertise the discount; the health care provider does not provide the discount prior to the service being scheduled or outside the provider’s ordinary course of dealing with patients; and the health care provider does not shift the cost of the discount to any other payer or, except as allowed by law, include the discount in an agreement with a third-party payer. Health insurance policies are referred to as disability insurance policies in the bill.

Who's behind it

5 senators are its ⁠. 4 are Republicans and 1 is a Democrat.

16 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 21 names

Authors (5)

Signed on in support (16)

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this bill.

Senate Committee on Health vote to recommend it

Passed, 5 to 0 · Feb 3, 2026

No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Official motion: “Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 5, Noes 0”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Apr 6, 2026

    The new law was published.

  2. Apr 6, 2026

    The governor signed it. It became 2025 Wisconsin Act 147.

  3. Apr 2, 2026

    Sent to the governor.

  4. Feb 26, 2026

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  5. Feb 19, 2026

    The Assembly passed it too.

  6. Feb 18, 2026

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  7. Feb 12, 2026

    The Assembly received it.

  8. Feb 11, 2026

    The Senate passed it.

  9. Feb 11, 2026

    1 more senator signed on in support.

  10. Feb 3, 2026

    The committee voted to recommend passing it, 5 to 0.

  11. Jan 29, 2026

    The committee held a public hearing.

  12. Jan 14, 2026

    Sent to the Senate Committee on Health.

  13. Jan 14, 2026

    Introduced in the Senate.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Jan 14, 2026 · Senate

    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

  2. Jan 14, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  3. Jan 29, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  5. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

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

  6. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  7. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

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

  8. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Senator Ratcliff added as a coauthor

  9. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Read a second time

  10. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  11. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  12. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  13. Feb 11, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  14. Feb 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  15. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  16. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

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

  17. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  18. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  19. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  20. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  21. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  22. Feb 23, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  23. Feb 25, 2026 · Senate

    LRB correction

  24. Feb 25, 2026 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  25. Feb 26, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  26. Apr 2, 2026 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026

  27. Apr 6, 2026 · Senate

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

  28. Apr 6, 2026 · Senate

    Published 4-3-2026

Terms on this page

Wisconsin Act

The number a bill gets when it becomes law, like 2025 Wisconsin Act 12.

Official term: Act. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

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Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Wisconsin Act

The number a bill gets when it becomes law, like 2025 Wisconsin Act 12.

Official term: Act

More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote

More in the glossary