Bill Text: MI HB4599 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance; health care corporations; coverage for inpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment; provide that coverage cannot be more restrictive than coverage for inpatient medical treatment. Amends 1980 PA 350 (MCL 550.1101 - 550.1704) by adding sec. 416f. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4598'09, HB 4600'09

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 40-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-11-10 - Referred To Second Reading [HB4599 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4599-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4599

 

March 17, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Johnson, Byrnes, Angerer, Warren, Donigan, Liss, Smith, Byrum, Scripps, Leland, Sheltrown, Coulouris, Spade, Mayes, Bledsoe, McDowell, Terry Brown, Haugh, Bauer, Durhal, Lipton, Tlaib, Roberts, Young, Polidori, Lori, Jackson, Dean, Valentine, Neumann, Meadows, Lisa Brown, Gonzales, Pearce, Miller, Switalski, Melton, Barnett, Segal, Womack, Constan, Roy Schmidt, Opsommer, Booher, Green, DeShazor and Kurtz and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 1980 PA 350, entitled

 

"The nonprofit health care corporation reform act,"

 

(MCL 550.1101 to 550.1704) by adding section 416f.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 416f. A health care corporation that issues or renews in

 

this state on or after January 1, 2010 a group or nongroup

 

certificate shall provide that cost-sharing requirements and

 

benefit or service limitations for inpatient hospital mental health

 

and inpatient hospital and residential substance abuse services do

 

not place a greater financial burden on the member and are not more

 

restrictive than those requirements and limitations for inpatient

 

hospital medical services.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 95th Legislature are

 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4600(request no.

 

01313'09 **).

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4598(request no.

 

01334'09 **).

 

     (c) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No.____ (request no.

 

01335'09 *).