INSURANCE - MEDICAL

Missouri House of Representatives
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INSURANCE - MEDICAL
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: Increases property tax credits for the elderly, exempts the elderly from sales tax on food and enhances Medicaid benefits.

: Requires insurance coverage for services provided by registered nurse first assistants and licensed physician assistants.

: Amends various provisions regarding managed care.

: Prohibits the use of genetic information or test results for insurance purposes.

: Changes the allowable supply of medication to be received by certain enrollees through a pharmaceutical plan and requires collection agencies to be informed when payments are made on patient accounts.

: Requires health insurers to offer contraceptive coverage to enrollees.

: Requires health insurers to provide diabetes coverage to enrollees.

: Requires all health benefit plans to issue uniform prescription drug information cards.

: Requires health insurance coverage for scalp prostheses for persons with alopecia.

: Creates a state income tax credit for certain small employers who provide health insurance for eligible employees.

: Creates a state income tax deduction of up to two thousand dollars for costs of documented health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses of individual taxpayers.

: Increases the salary and benefits of certain police officers and their beneficiaries in the City of St. Louis.

: Amends various provisions regarding managed care.

: Mandates health insurance coverage for hearing aids.

: Increases the amount of the state income tax deduction for long-term health insurance premiums from fifty percent to one hundred percent for tax years beginning after December 31, 2000.

: Exempts from state income tax all amounts spent for medical insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical costs.

: Provides medical assistance to employed persons with disabilities pursuant to the federal Ticket to Work Act.

: Regulates state agency privatization contracts; allows political subdivisions to use same regulatory process.

: Requires health insurers to treat mental health and chemical dependency in the same manner as other medical services.

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program.

: Enacts new provisions under the federal Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Act; allows state to consent to being sued in state courts under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

: Makes various changes regarding the health insurance pool.

: Creates a state income tax deduction for individuals in an amount equal to one hundred percent of health insurance premiums.

: Makes various changes to the health insurance pool.

: Revises reimbursement for health care services by health carriers.

: Allows past state retirees to elect coverage under the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan.

: Requires HMOs to provide direct access to ob/gyn services, bone density testing and contraceptive coverage, and notify enrollees of cancer screenings available through their insurance.

: Increases access to chiropractic services for purposes of insurance coverage.

: Requires the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan to complete contract agreements prior to January 1 of the year in which they are effective.

: Modifies the income categories for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

: Prohibits the disclosure of health information without the consent of the person to whom such information pertains.

: Establishes a Childhood Lead Testing Program in the Department of Health.

: Prohibits insurers from using genetic information to discriminate and makes it unlawful to require a person to submit to certain genetic procedures for certain purposes.

: Provides health insurance coverage for the treatment of maple syrup urine disease.

: Requires a standardized form to be used by health carriers for explanation of benefits and referrals.

: Requires health plans to cover all services provided or ordered by registered nurse first assistants.

: Establishes the "Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program" to provide health care benefits to all Missouri citizens.

: Provides additional protection for health care consumers.

: Requires a health carrier to allow any willing provider to participate in its network if that person satisfies all selection standards.

: Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for twenty-four hours of inpatient care following surgery.

: Prohibits health carriers from changing conditions of its drug formulary during contract period.

: Provides protection for health care consumers.

: Prohibits health carriers from changing conditions of their drug formulary during contract period.

: Requires insurers to provide coverage for hearing exams, hearing aide and other hearing devices and services.

: Requires insurers to provide annual claim reports to group policyholders.

: Increases access to chiropractic services for insurance purposes.

: Requires interchangeable recognition of medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy by insurance companies.

: Clarifies continuing coverage for prosthetic devices or reconstructive surgery due to breast cancer.

: Prohibits health carriers from requiring providers to use hospitalists and use all of the carrier's services.

: Requires the department of health to submit a biennial report to the general assembly regarding physician employment contracts with managed care entities.

: Modifies provisions regarding reimbursements between health care professionals and health carriers.

: Modifies provisions regarding reimbursements between health care professionals and health carriers.

: Prohibits the use of genetic information or test results for insurance purposes.

: Requires Medicaid eligibility for certain disabled workers.

: Requires insurers to provide direct access to OB/GYN services and provide other women-related health coverages.

: Revises "prompt-pay" provisions for health carriers and places other restrictions on health carriers.

: Expands the obigation of the Missouri Property and Casualty Guaranty Association for certain claims of insolvent insurers.

: Healthy Families Trust Fund to pay for certain health insurance costs.

: Requires newly mandated health insurance coverage benefits to apply to Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan before implementing them generally.

: Provides for Medicaid eligibility for certain breast and cervical cancer patients.

: Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage of specific cancer and special condition clinical trials after August 28, 2001.

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:50 am