Virginia House Bill 1185 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: Introduced on January 16 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-12 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Health insurance; coverage for mental health services. Prohibits an insurer that provides coverage for inpatient and partial hospitalization mental health and substance abuse services for a family member of the insured or subscriber from denying coverage based primarily on a subjective evaluation of the imminence of the individual's suicide risk or risk of danger to others made by an employee or contractor of the insurer or corporation. An insurer's determination of whether inpatient treatment is medically necessary is required to give due consideration to the treatment recommendation of the health care provider treating the individual. In addition, the measure provides that if an insurer validly denies coverage for inpatient and partial hospitalization because a less intensive treatment option represents the medically necessary level of care, and the covered individual nevertheless receives the more intensive treatment, the insurer shall provide coverage for the more intensive treatment on the basis of the reimbursement and payment rates that would have applied had the less intensive treatment been provided.

Health insurance; coverage for mental health services.

Sen. Rosalyn Dance [D]	Del. Algie Howell [D]	Del. Johnny Joannou [D]	Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]
Del. John O'Bannon [R]	Sen. Lionell Spruill [D]	Del. Jeion Ward [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-12	House	Left in Commerce and Labor
2014-01-16	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2014-01-16	House	Presented and ordered printed 14103022D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	3412.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB1185
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB1185+hil