HF 311 - Health Insurance Coverage for Prosthetics - Iowa Key Vote
Timeline
- Executive Signed
- April 24, 2009
- House Concurrence Vote Passed
- April 7, 2009
- Senate Bill Passed
- April 1, 2009
- House Bill Passed
- Feb. 18, 2009
- Introduced
- Feb. 13, 2009
Related Issues
Stage Details
Title: Health Insurance Coverage for Prosthetics
Signed by Governor Chet Culver
Title: Health Insurance Coverage for Prosthetics
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires insurers to provide health care benefit coverage for medically-necessary prosthetic devices prescribed by a licensed physician.
Highlights:
-Specifies that the coverage for prosthetic devices must at a minimum equal the coverage and payment provided for such devices under the most recent relevant federal laws (Sec. 1). -Specifies that the provisions of this bill apply to the following types of policies, contracts, or plans beginning July 1, 2009 (Sec. 1):
- -accident and sickness insurance providing coverage on an expenses-incurred basis;
-specified hospital or medical service contracts;
-specified health maintenance organization contracts;
-organized delivery systems licensed by the director of public health; and
-specified public employee plans.
- -accident only;
-specified disease;
-short term hospital or medical;
-hospital confinement indemnity;
-credit;
-dental;
-vision;
-Medicare supplement;
-long-term care;
-basic hospital and medical surgical expense;
-disability income insurance;
-supplemental coverage to liability insurance;
-worker's compensation; and
-automobile medical payment insurance.
Title: Health Insurance Coverage for Prosthetics
Committee Sponsors
- Commerce Committee (Sponsor)