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Relating to third-party payment of coverage benefits for mental health and disability regional core services
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 27, 2019
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to third-party payment of coverage benefits for mental health and disability regional core services.397. The coverage benefits must be based on rates, terms, and conditions that are no more restrictive than those for coverage benefits provided for other health or medical conditions under the policy, contract, or plan. Any deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, and any other cost-sharing requirements shall be cumulative for coverage of both the mental health and disability regional core services and other health or medical conditions under the policy, contract, or plan.
Read the full explanation
The bill is applicable to third-party payment provider policies, contracts, or plans delivered, issued for delivery, continued, or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2020, including individual or group accident and sickness insurance providing coverage on an expense-incurred basis, an individual or group hospital or medical service contract issued pursuant to Code chapter 509, 514, or 514A, an individual or group health maintenance organization contract regulated under Code chapter 514B, and a plan established pursuant to Code chapter 509A for public employees. The bill does not apply to accident-only, specified disease, short-term hospital or medical, hospital confinement indemnity, credit, dental, vision, Medicare supplement, long-term care, basic hospital and medical-surgical expense coverage as defined by the commissioner, disability income insurance coverage, coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance, workers’ compensation or similar insurance, or automobile medical payment insurance. The commissioner of insurance shall adopt rules as necessary to administer the requirements of the bill.