Bill Text: CT SB00056 | 2011 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut Senate Bill 56 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Breast Ultrasound Screenings.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-10 - Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate [SB00056 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-SB00056-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 56*
*January Session, 2011*		LCO No. 581

Referred to Committee on Insurance and Real Estate
Introduced by:
SEN. CRISCO, 17th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING BREAST ULTRASOUND SCREENINGS.

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

That title 38a of the general statutes be amended to prohibit health insurers and health care centers from (1) imposing a coinsurance, copayment, deductible or other out-of-pocket expense for ultrasound screening of an entire breast or breasts if a mammogram demonstrates heterogeneous or dense breast tissue, and (2) applying the cost of such ultrasound screening to annual or lifetime benefit limits under a health insurance policy providing coverage of the types specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 of the general statutes.

Statement of Purpose:

To allow women with heterogeneous or dense breast tissue to obtain an ultrasound screening with no out-of-pocket expense.