Bill Text: CT SB00212 | 2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Mandating Health Insurance Coverage Of Certain Knee Aspirations.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-23 - Public Hearing 03/01 [SB00212 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-SB00212-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 212
February Session, 2018		LCO No. 1274
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Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Introduced by:
(INS)

AN ACT MANDATING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE OF CERTAIN KNEE ASPIRATIONS.

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

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective January 1, 2019) 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 on or after January 1, 2019, shall provide coverage for knee aspirations with an accompanying injection of a hyaluronic acid preparation for any patient diagnosed with osteoarthritis.

Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective January 1, 2019) 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 on or after January 1, 2019, shall provide coverage for knee aspirations with an accompanying injection of a hyaluronic acid preparation for any patient diagnosed with osteoarthritis.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	January 1, 2019	New section
Sec. 2	January 1, 2019	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To require that certain individual and group health insurance policies cover certain knee aspirations for persons diagnosed with osteoarthritis.

[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.]