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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 835
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 2262
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
SEN. HARDING, 30th Dist.
SEN. MARTIN, 31st Dist.
SEN. SAMPSON, 16th Dist.
SEN. CICARELLA, 34th Dist.
SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist.
SEN. HWANG, 28th Dist.
SEN. BERTHEL, 32nd Dist.
SEN. FAZIO, 36th Dist.
SEN. GORDON, 35th Dist.
SEN. KISSEL, 7th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE REVITALIZATION AND
STRENGTHENING OF THE STATE'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM TO
PROMOTE HEALTH CARE QUALITY AND AFFORDABILITY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to (1) authorize association 1
health plans, (2) establish a working group to make recommendations 2
to overhaul health care statutes in pursuit of health care realignment, 3
including a new mandate review process, (3) eliminate all certificate of 4
need requirements for outpatient and inpatient expansion of services, 5
except for certificate of need requirements relating to (A) the expansion 6
of radiology equipment, (B) any outpatient or inpatient reduction or 7
elimination of services, and (C) hospital transfers of ownership, (4) 8
require public notices and public hearings as part of the certificate of 9
need application process, (5) require the Office of Health Strategy's 10
Health Systems Planning Unit to issue decisions on certificate of need 11
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is submitted to the unit, (6) establish checkpoints in the Insurance 13
Department's rate approval process, (7) require a study of insurance 14
companies' ability to provide tiered products, including a plan based on 15
the federal essential health benefits standard, and (8) evaluate the need 16
for a federal waiver to offer other tiered and catastrophic insurance 17
plans. 18
Statement of Purpose:
To create a sustainable, patient-centered health care system that
improves outcomes for all state residents.