Bill Text: CT HB05142 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Requiring The Inclusion Of Primary Care Providers On Health Insurance Identification Cards.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-17 - Public Hearing 02/21 [HB05142 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05142-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5142
February Session, 2012		LCO No. 801
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Referred to Committee on Insurance and Real Estate
Introduced by:
(INS)

AN ACT REQUIRING THE INCLUSION OF PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS ON HEALTH INSURANCE IDENTIFICATION CARDS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 38a-472f of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2013):

(a) Each insurer, health care center, managed care organization or other entity that delivers, issues for delivery, renews, amends or continues an individual or group health insurance policy or medical benefits plan, and each preferred provider network, as defined in section 38a-479aa, that contracts with a health care provider, as defined in section 38a-478, for the purposes of providing covered health care services to its enrollees, shall maintain a network of such providers that is consistent with the National Committee for Quality Assurance's network adequacy requirements or URAC's provider network access and availability standards.

(b) Each insurer, health care center, managed care organization or other entity that delivers, issues for delivery, renews, amends or continues an individual or group health insurance policy or medical benefits plan shall include on any identification card issued to an enrollee for such policy or plan the name of the enrollee's primary care provider.

Sec. 2. Section 38a-478d of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2013):

For any contract delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, amended or continued in this state, each managed care organization shall:

(1) Provide at least annually to each enrollee a listing of all providers available under the provisions of the enrollee's enrollment agreement, in writing or through the Internet at the option of the enrollee;

(2) Include, under a separate category or heading, participating advanced practice registered nurses in the listing of providers specified under subdivision (1) of this section; [and

(3) For a managed care plan that requires the selection of a primary care provider:

(A)] (3) Allow an enrollee to designate a participating, in-network physician or a participating, in-network advanced practice registered nurse as such enrollee's primary care provider; and

[(B)] (4) Provide notification, as soon as possible, to each such enrollee upon the termination or withdrawal of the enrollee's primary care provider.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	January 1, 2013	38a-472f
Sec. 2	January 1, 2013	38a-478d

Statement of Purpose:

To require an insurer, health care center, managed care organization or other entity that delivers, issues for delivery, renews, amends or continues a health insurance policy or medical benefits plan to include the name of an enrollee's primary care provider on any identification card issued to the enrollee for such policy or plan.

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