Bill Text: CT HB05438 | 2011 | General Assembly | Comm Sub


Bill Title: An Act Limiting Copayments For Chiropractic Services.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-23 - File Number 831 [HB05438 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-HB05438-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly

 

Substitute Bill No. 5438

    January Session, 2011

 

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AN ACT LIMITING COPAYMENTS FOR CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 38a-507 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2012):

[Every] (a) Each individual health insurance policy delivered, issued for delivery, [or] renewed, amended or continued in this state [on or after October 1, 1989,] shall provide coverage for services rendered by a chiropractor licensed under chapter 372 to the same extent coverage is provided for services rendered by a physician, if such chiropractic services (1) treat a condition covered under such policy, and (2) are within those services a chiropractor is licensed to perform.

(b) No such policy shall impose a copayment greater than fifty per cent of the total cost of any single chiropractic service covered under subsection (a) of this section.

Sec. 2. Section 38a-534 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2012):

[Every] (a) Each group health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (6) and (11) of section 38a-469, delivered, issued for delivery, [or] renewed, amended or continued in this state [on or after October 1, 1989,] shall provide coverage for services rendered by a chiropractor licensed under chapter 372 to the same extent coverage is provided for services rendered by a physician, if such chiropractic services (1) treat a condition covered under such policy, and (2) are within those services a chiropractor is licensed to perform.

(b) No such policy shall impose a copayment greater than fifty per cent of the total cost of any single chiropractic service covered under subsection (a) of this section.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:

Section 1

January 1, 2012

38a-507

Sec. 2

January 1, 2012

38a-534

INS

Joint Favorable Subst.

 

APP

Joint Favorable

 
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