Bill Text: MI HB4598 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance; health; coverage for inpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment; provide that coverage cannot be more restrictive than coverage for inpatient medical treatment. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3406t. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4599'09, HB 4600'09

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-11-10 - Referred To Second Reading [HB4598 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4598-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4598

 

March 17, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Pearce, Byrnes, Angerer, Warren, Donigan, Liss, Smith, Jackson, Sheltrown, Byrum, Spade, Mayes, McDowell, Coulouris, Leland, Scripps, Haugh, Terry Brown, Valentine, Bauer, Lipton, Tlaib, Roberts, Young, Barnett, Polidori, Dean, Neumann, Lisa Brown, Meadows, Gonzales, Durhal, Johnson, Miller, Melton, Segal, Womack, Constan, Roy Schmidt, Opsommer, Booher, Green, Lori, DeShazor and Kurtz and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled

 

"The insurance code of 1956,"

 

(MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3406t.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3406t. An insurer that delivers, issues for delivery, or

 

renews in this state on or after January 1, 2010 an expense-

 

incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy or certificate and a

 

health maintenance organization that issues or renews a group or

 

individual contract on or after January 1, 2010 shall provide that

 

cost-sharing requirements and benefit or service limitations for

 

inpatient hospital mental health and inpatient hospital and

 

residential substance abuse services do not place a greater

 

financial burden on the insured or enrollee and are not more

 

restrictive than those requirements and limitations for inpatient

 

hospital medical services.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 95th Legislature are

 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 4599(request no.

 

01336'09 *).

 

     (b) Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 4600(request no.

 

01313'09 **).

 

     (c) Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. ____ (request no.

 

01335'09 *).