Bill Text: MI HB5047 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance; health care corporations; coverage for hearing aids and cochlear implants for children under 18 years old; provide for. Amends 1980 PA 350 (MCL 550.1101 - 550.1704) by adding sec. 416e.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-06-09 - Printed Bill Filed 06/05/2009 [HB5047 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB5047-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5047

 

June 4, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Dean, Lemmons, Roy Schmidt, Spade, Lipton, Bauer, Cushingberry, Durhal, Bettie Scott, Haase, Gregory, Hammel, Polidori, Melton and Scripps and referred to the Committee on Insurance.

 

     A bill to amend 1980 PA 350, entitled

 

"The nonprofit health care corporation reform act,"

 

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

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 416e. (1) A health care corporation group or nongroup

 

certificate shall provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids or

 

cochlear implants and related professional services for a child

 

covered under the certificate who is under 18 years old and who is

 

certified as having a hearing loss that is treatable with hearing

 

aids or cochlear implants by a licensed physician or licensed

 

audiologist.

 

     (2) Coverage under subsection (1) may be subject to dollar

 

limits, copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance provisions that

 

apply generally under the certificate.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January

 

1, 2010.