Connecticut 2015 2015 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00417 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/21/2015

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 417
January Session, 2015  LCO No. 2170
 *02170*
Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Introduced by:
SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 417 

January Session, 2015

LCO No. 2170

*02170*

Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE 

Introduced by:

SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING CONFERENCES BETWEEN HEALTH CARRIERS' CLINICAL PEERS AND HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That title 38a of the general statutes be amended to require all health carriers to offer a covered person's health care professional the opportunity to confer with a clinical peer of such health carrier and to require any such clinical peer to have the authority to reverse an adverse determination.

Statement of Purpose: 

To require all health carriers to offer a covered person's health care professional the opportunity to confer with a clinical peer of such health carrier and to require any such clinical peer to have the authority to reverse an adverse determination.