Connecticut 2017 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00021 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/06/2017

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 21
January Session, 2017  LCO No. 826
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Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Introduced by:
SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 21 

January Session, 2017

LCO No. 826

*00826*

Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE 

Introduced by:

SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE OF ORALLY AND INTRAVENOUSLY ADMINISTERED MEDICATIONS.

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 health insurance coverage of orally administered medications on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered medications.

Statement of Purpose: 

To create equity between orally administered and intravenously administered medications.