File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 117
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Goldwater, Pitkin, Workman, Kopp, Barve, Bobo, and Pendergrass
- Entitled:
-
Health Benefit Plans - Minimum Inpatient Hospitalization Coverage -
Mastectomies and Lymph Node Dissections
Requiring health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health
maintenance organizations to provide a minimum length of inpatient
hospitalization coverage of 48 hours after a mastectomy and 24 hours
after a lymph node dissection that is performed for the treatment of
breast cancer; specifying an exception; etc.
House Action
- 1/17
- First Reading Economic Matters
- 1/29
- Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/24
- Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13A
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DISEASES -see also- AIDS
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- NOTICES
- PATIENTS
- WOMEN
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
15-822
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)