| RI | H7900 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires the EOHHS to establish an early childhood mental health hub program focused on improving access to infant and early childhood mental health services for childre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7273 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all services provided by a pharmacist provided coverage of such services would have been covered if provided by a physician, advanced practice nurse, or physician...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: May 1]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2269 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prevents insurance companies from treating widowed persons differently than married persons when establishing or maintaining an insured's rate or classification respecting the operation of a personal motor veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2401 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all services provided by a pharmacist provided coverage of such services would have been covered if provided by a physician, advanced practice nurse, or physician...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: May 2]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2396 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates insurance policies, provides coverage to diagnose & treat infertility for women between 25 & 42 years, including pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in conjunction with in vitro fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Placed on Senate Calendar (04/30/2024) |
| RI | S2440 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE REPLACEMENT PARTS - Prohibits insurance companies from refusing to use after market parts that are greater than 48 months and less than 72 months from the date of manufacture, provided the repairer has written consent from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2611 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Limits the use by insurers of step therapy, a protocol that establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs for a specified medical condition are covered by an insurer, by al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: May 2]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2610 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDER COMPENSATION ACT - Expands health insurance commissioner's authority to set reimbursement rates for mental health services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2873 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- DENTAL INSURANCE LOSS RATIO REPORTING AND STUDY ACT - Requires dental health insurance carriers to file an actuarial memorandum disclosing its incurred claims/earned premiums, to assist the health insurance commissioner with respect to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2965 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Provides that dental services rendered to patients would be reimbursed by standards governed by the general laws of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2946 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates all insurance plans provide insurance coverage for diagnosing and treating infertility for women between the ages of 25 and 42 years including preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8203 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Authorizes emergency medical service agencies to transport individuals to alternative facilities for treatment and permits licensed providers for mental health disorders to treat patients within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7435 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- PET INSURANCE ACT - Enacts a chapter to regulate pet insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
House read and passed |
| RI | H8171 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Removes the sunset provision of all statutory law requiring coverage for the treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2982 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES AND RESERVES - Replaces the term "the drug naloxone" with the term "opioid antagonist" in chapters regulating life insurance policies and group life insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H7519 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Provides that dental services rendered to patients would be reimbursed by standards governed by the general laws of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7433 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Amend the standards for issuing Medicare supplemental insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7082 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- NONPROFIT DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAIR SHARE FOR DENTAL CARE ACT - Requires carriers offering dental benefit plans to annually submit information which includes the current and projected medical loss ratio for cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7607 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- SMALL EMPLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE AVAILABILITY ACT - Amends the definition of "small employer" for purposes of the small employer health insurance availability act to mean a business employing less than one hundred (100) employees rather t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7720 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PHARMACY FREEDOM OF CHOICE -- FAIR COMPETITION AND PRACTICES - Ensures that independent pharmacies are protected from pharmacy benefit discrimination toward non-affiliated pharmacies and helps protect consumers' ability to choose local, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7717 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Requires healthcare plans in RI to notify providers of any proposed amendments to an agreement 60 days before the effective date and requires 60 days notice of any amendment to a manu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7716 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Requires that healthcare entities and network plans, eff. 1/1/25, include provision in every contract with a provider of mental health/substance use disorders that rates paid pursuant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7944 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- DENTAL INSURANCE LOSS RATIO REPORTING AND STUDY ACT - Requires dental health insurance carriers to file an actuarial memorandum disclosing its incurred claims/earned premiums, to assist the health insurance commissioner with respect to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8041 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8056 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2082 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing Jan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2812 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PET INSURANCE ACT - Enacts a chapter to regulate pet insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2177 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits health benefit plans reviewing prescriptions for opioid addiction treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2389 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Authorizes emergency medical service agencies to transport individuals to alternative facilities for treatment and permits licensed providers for mental health disorders to treat patients within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | S2382 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- LIFETIME LIMITS - Repeals the authority of the health insurance commissioner to enforce any act of Congress/decision of federal court invalidating or repealing the prohibition of annual lifetim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2403 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY - Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2392 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Amend the standards for issuing Medicare supplemental insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2715 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates health insurance coverage to include transportation for emergency services by ambulance or rescue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7974 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Provides insured individuals with a private cause of action under the unfair claims settlement practices act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7432 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- INSURERS' REHABILITATION AND LIQUIDATION ACT - Provides that no person, for over ten days, shall be restricted from enforcing a right under any pledge, security, credit, guarantee agreement, arrangement or other agreement credit enhancem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H7606 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prevents insurance companies from treating widowed persons differently than married persons when establishing or maintaining an insured's rate or classification respecting the operation of a personal motor veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2070 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits an insurance company from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for any diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2085 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars, per ear, every three years for all people regardless of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2069 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription asthma inhaler to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2607 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires coverage for acute mental health crisis mobile response and stabilization services to any individual enrolled as a plan beneficiary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2606 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all community health workers' services to include health and promotion coaching, health education and training, health system navigation and resource coordination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2626 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health plans that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of glucagon auto-injector, nasal spray, or formulation that does not require reconstitution to treat hypoglyce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8015 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT AND MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE FRAUD REPORTING -- IMMUNITY ACT - Prohibits the release of customers personal information compiled by the department of motor vehicles to any private company, nonprofit organization or thir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | S2798 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRODUCER LICENSING ACT - Amends provisions re insurance producer appointments and clarifies language re insurance claims adjusters. Amends the RI life & health guarantee assoc act. Adds insurance data security and pet insurance acts and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2802 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- EXAMINATIONS - Amends the statutory provisions regarding domestic and foreign insurers and insurer examinations to provide provisions with regard to cybersecurity events involving Rhode Island consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2176 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates health insurance coverage to include transportation for emergency services by ambulance or rescue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2720 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2875 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides insurance coverage for interpreter services for all medically necessary doctor appointments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2724 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- NONPROFIT DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAIR SHARE FOR DENTAL CARE ACT - Requires carriers offering dental benefit plans to annually submit information which includes the current and projected medical loss ratio for cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7197 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars, per ear, every three years for all people regardless of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
