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1999 SESSION
SB 1291 Health insurance; access to specialists, standing referrals.
Introduced by: Yvonne B. Miller | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Accident and sickness insurance; access to specialists; standing referrals. Requires each (i) insurer proposing to issue 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 provide access to specialists for those individuals with ongoing special conditions. Each insurer, corporation or health maintenance organization is required to develop procedures whereby a covered individual with an ongoing special condition may receive a standing referral to a specialist. Insurers, corporations, and health maintenance organizations may require a specialist to provide written notification to the individual’s primary care physician, including a description of the services rendered.
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HISTORY
- 01/21/99 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 994704753
- 01/21/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/01/99 Senate: Reported from C. & L. with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/99 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/05/99 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/08/99 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/09/99 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/09/99 Senate: Motion for previous question agreed to (22-Y 18-N)
- 02/09/99 Senate: VOTE: PREVIOUS QUESTION (22-Y 18-N)
- 02/09/99 Senate: Previous question ordered
- 02/09/99 Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to (22-Y 18-N)
- 02/09/99 Senate: VOTE: REREFER TO COMMITTEE (22-Y 18-N)
- 02/09/99 Senate: Rereferred to Education and Health
- 02/09/99 Senate: Reconsider motion to rerefer agreed to (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/99 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/99 Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to (21-Y 18-N)
- 02/09/99 Senate: VOTE: REREFER TO COMMITTEE (21-Y 18-N)
- 02/09/99 Senate: Rereferred to Education and Health
- 02/09/99 Senate: Left in Education and Health