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2008 SESSION
SB 645 Health insurance; mandated coverage for prosthetic devices and components.
Introduced by: Patricia S. Ticer | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Health insurance; mandated coverage for prosthetic devices and components. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the cost of prosthetic devices and components, if the treating physician certifies the medical necessity of the prosthetic device and component as a proposed course of treatment. The coverage shall, at a minimum, equal the coverage provided under provisions of the federal Medicare program. SB 13 is incorporated into this bill.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/08 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 080033336 pdf | impact statement
- 01/29/08 Senate: Committee substitute printed 080159336-S1 pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 01/09/08 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 080033336
- 01/09/08 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/28/08 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
- 01/28/08 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 01/29/08 Senate: Committee substitute printed 080159336-S1
- 02/06/08 Senate: Reported from Finance (9-Y 6-N 1-A)
- 02/07/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/08 Senate: Read second time
- 02/08/08 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/08/08 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 080159336-S1
- 02/08/08 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB645S1
- 02/08/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/08 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/11/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/11/08 Senate: Motion to recommit to committee agreed to (23-Y 17-N)
- 02/11/08 Senate: Recommitted to Commerce and Labor
- 02/11/08 Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(f)
- 02/11/08 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Commerce and Labor