File Code: Insurance - Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Hixson, Finifter, Morhaim, and Rosenberg
- Entitled:
-
Health Insurance - Hearing Aids and Related Treatment - Coverage for
Children
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health
maintenance organizations to provide coverage for hearing aids for
children if the hearing aid is prescribed, fitted, and dispensed by a
licensed audiologist; requiring insurers, nonprofit health service
plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for
treatment relating to the child's hearing impairment and hearing aids;
etc.
House Action
- 2/3
- First Reading Economic Matters
- 2/9
- Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/13
- Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Sheila E. Hixson, District 20
- Delegate Michael J. Finifter, District 11
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AUDIOLOGISTS AND SPEECH PATHOLOGISTS
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMOS; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN CARE ORGS
- HEARING AIDS
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; YOUTH
- NOTICES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
15-835
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered