Bill Text: MI SB0449 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Insurance; health insurers; coverage for hearing aids for individuals 21 years or younger; provide for. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3406t.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-09-09 - Referred To Committee On Insurance [SB0449 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0449-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 449
September 9, 2015, Introduced by Senators ZORN, HOOD, GREGORY, WARREN, JOHNSON, HOPGOOD and NOFS and referred to the Committee on Insurance.
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. (1) An insurer that delivers, issues for delivery,
or renews in this state an expense-incurred hospital, medical, or
surgical policy or certificate or a health maintenance organization
that issues or renews a group or individual contract shall include
in that policy, certificate, or contract coverage for hearing aids
for a covered individual who is 21 years of age or younger for
hearing loss that is not correctable by other covered procedures.
An insurer or health maintenance organization may limit coverage
under this section to 1 hearing aid in each ear every 3 years.
(2) An insurer or health maintenance organization shall not
subject the coverage required by this section to dollar limits,
deductibles, or coinsurance provisions that are not generally
applicable to other coverage under the policy, certificate, or
contract.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act applies to policies,
certificates, and contracts delivered, executed, issued, amended,
adjusted, or renewed in this state, or outside of this state if
covering residents of this state, beginning 180 days after the date
this amendatory act is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
