Bill Text: CT SB00038 | 2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Requiring Health Insurance Coverage For Patient Lifts.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-11 - Public Hearing 02/18 [SB00038 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-SB00038-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 38
February Session, 2016		LCO No. 446
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Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Introduced by:
(INS)

AN ACT REQUIRING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR PATIENT LIFTS.

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

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective January 1, 2017) Each individual health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 of the general statutes delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, amended or continued in this state, shall provide coverage for the purchase or rental of a patient lift that operates to lift an individual from a bed or a wheelchair by hydraulic operation, provided such individual's treating physician has certified, in writing, that the patient lift is medically necessary.

Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective January 1, 2017) Each group health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 of the general statutes delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, amended or continued in this state, shall provide coverage for the purchase or rental of a patient lift that operates to lift an individual from a bed or a wheelchair by hydraulic operation, provided such individual's treating physician has certified, in writing, that the patient lift is medically necessary.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	January 1, 2017	New section
Sec. 2	January 1, 2017	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To require health insurance coverage for the purchase or rental of patient lifts.

[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.]