Bill Text: CT SB00020 | 2011 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Insurance Coverage For Hearing Aids.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-16 - Change of Reference, House to Committee on Appropriations [SB00020 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-SB00020-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 20
January Session, 2011		LCO No. 783
		*00783SB00020INS*
Referred to Committee on Insurance and Real Estate
Introduced by:
(INS)

AN ACT CONCERNING INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR HEARING AIDS.

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

Section 1. Section 38a-490b of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2012):

Each individual health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, amended or continued in this state [on or after October 1, 2001,] shall provide coverage for hearing aids for (1) children twelve years of age or younger, and (2) persons who have reached fifty-five years of age but have not reached sixty-five years of age. Such hearing aids shall be considered durable medical equipment under the policy and the policy may limit the hearing aid benefit to one thousand dollars within a twenty-four-month period.

Sec. 2. Section 38a-516b of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2012):

Each group health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, amended or continued in this state [on or after October 1, 2001,] shall provide coverage for hearing aids for (1) children twelve years of age or younger, and (2) persons who have reached fifty-five years of age but have not reached sixty-five years of age. Such hearing aids shall be considered durable medical equipment under the policy and the policy may limit the hearing aid benefit to one thousand dollars within a twenty-four-month period.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	January 1, 2012	38a-490b
Sec. 2	January 1, 2012	38a-516b

Statement of Purpose:

To require insurance coverage for hearing aids for persons who have reached fifty-five years of age but have not reached sixty-five years of age.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

Co-Sponsors:

SEN. CRISCO, 17th Dist.

S.B. 20