HB0026 - Health insurance-cancer screenings.
2001 |
State of Wyoming |
01LSO-0137.E1 ENGROSSED |
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0026
Health insurance-cancer screenings.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Parady, Illoway and
Robinson and Senator(s) Cathcart and Job
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to group
disability insurance; specifying
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group disability insurance benefits or coverage for
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specified cancer screenings; authorizing a copayment for
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cancer screenings as specified; and providing for an
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effective date.
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7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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9 Section
1. W.S. 26-19-107 by creating new subsections
10 (j) and (k) is amended to read:
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12 26-19-107. Group disability and blanket
insurance
13 standard provisions; exceptions.
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15 (j) All group and blanket disability insurance
16 policies
providing coverage on an expense incurred basis,
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1 individual and group service or indemnity type contracts
2 issued by a nonprofit corporation,
individual and group
3 service contracts issued by a health
maintenance
4 organization, all self-insured group
arrangements to the
5 extent not preempted by federal law
and all managed health
6 care delivery entities of any type or
description, that are
7 delivered, issued for delivery,
continued or renewed on or
8 after July 1, 2001, and providing
coverage to any resident
9 of this state shall provide benefits
or coverage for:
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11 (i) A pelvic examination and pap smear for any
12 nonsymptomatic
women covered under the policy or contract;
13 and
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15 (ii) A colorectal cancer examination and
16 laboratory
tests for cancer for any nonsymptomatic person
17 covered under the policy or contract;
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19 (iii) A prostate examination and laboratory
20 tests
for cancer for any nonsymptomatic man covered under
21 the policy or contract; and
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1 (iv) A breast cancer
examination including a
2 screening mammogram and clinical
breast examination for any
3 nonsymptomatic person covered under
the policy or contract.
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5 (k) To encourage
public health and diagnostic health
6 screenings, the services covered under
subsection (j) of
7 this section shall be provided with no
deductible due and
8 payable. A health plan shall, at a
minimum, be liable for
9 eighty percent (80%) of the
reimbursement allowance of the
10 health plan up to a maximum of two hundred fifty dollars
11 ($250.00) per adult insured per year. A patient shall be
12 liable for coinsurance up to twenty percent (20%) if such
13 coinsurance is required pursuant to the patient's health
14 care coverage. Coverage may be in addition to any other
15 preventive care services. Nothing in this subsection or
16 subsection (j) of this section shall apply to accident only
17 policies, high deductible policies where the deductible
18 equals or exceeds one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per
19 person per year, policies qualifying as federal medical
20 savings accounts, long term care or disability income
21 policies.
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1 Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2001.
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3 (END)
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