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1998 SESSION

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HB 1383 Optional health insurance coverage for acupuncture.

Introduced by: Robert Tata | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Optional health insurance coverage for acupuncture. Requires any (i) individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical or major medical coverage on an expense incurred basis, (ii) corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, and (iii) health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services to offer and provide coverage for acupuncture treatments administered by a physician acupuncturist. These provisions will not apply to short-term travel, accident only, limited or specified disease, or individual conversion policies or contracts, nor to policies or contracts designed for issuance to persons eligible for coverage under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, known as Medicare, or any other similar coverage under state or federal governmental plans. Such policies, plans and contracts may not impose upon any person receiving acupuncture treatments administered by physician acupuncturists any copayment, coinsurance payment or fee that is not equally imposed upon all individuals in the same benefit category, class, coinsurance level or copayment level receiving benefits for other medical and surgical procedures. These provisions apply to policies, plans, and contracts delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in the Commonwealth after July 1, 1998.


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