INSURANCE - MEDICAL

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
Bills Indexed by Subject
INSURANCE - MEDICAL

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

: Requires health insurance coverage for children's hearing aids.

: Allows health carriers to offer plans with deductibles, coinsurance, and varying copayments.

: Requires health insurers to offer coverage for the treatment of morbid obesity.

: Limits the disclosure of nonpublic personal health information.

: Requires all insurance premium rate changes of 15% or more to be approved by the Director of the Department of Insurance after a public hearing.

: Modifies the formula used for determining health insurance premium costs for state employees in the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan.

: Prohibits health insurers from discriminating against any willing provider in the geographic region of the health benefit plan.

: Establishes the Missouri Medical Malpractice Mutual Insurance Company as an independent public corporation to insure Missouri physicians against liability for professional malpractice.

: Provides additional health insurance coverage for clinical trials for cancer treatment by adding phase I and II to the currently covered phase III and IV clinical trials.

: Allows public entities that self-insure health care benefits to require a right of subrogation in the same manner that the Department of Social Services has with the Medicaid Program.

: Revises various statutes relating to health insurance.

: Includes unborn children in the definition of "children" who are eligible to participate in the Children's Health Insurance Program.

: Increases, from 12% to 24% annually, the interest charges that health insurers may be assessed for late payment of claims and shortens the time within which insurers must respond to filed claims.

: Revises the statutes relating to health insurance.

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program to provide a single, publicly financed statewide insurance program for all residents of this state.

: Provides medical insurance benefits for certain Department of Transporation and State Highway Patrol retirees.

: Revises the statutes relating to health insurance coverage of chiropractic care.

: Establishes a health benefit purchasing cooperative pilot project.

: Restricts the ability of health insurers to change the diagnosis and treatment codes entered by providers, prohibits insurers from charging providers to participate, and requires advance notice of fee changes.

: Prohibits health insurers from discriminating against any willing provider in the geographic region of the health benefit plan.

: Extends the expiration date for the Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Insurance Act until January 1, 2011.

: Requires health insurance coverage for fertility treatments.

: Modifies the Missouri Small Business Health Reinsurance Program.

: Revises various statutes relating to medical malpractice insurance.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting reduction of the Children's Health Insurance Program coverage without two-thirds legislative majority.

: Requires insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids for children.

: Allows a tax deduction for those who contribute to medical savings accounts.

: Creates a tax credit for 10% of contributions to health reimbursement arrangements.

: Establishes a small business health insurance tax credit program to offset costs associated with employee health insurance premiums.

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

: Establishes mandated health benefit review commission and eliminates certain mandates from health policies.

: Subjects nonprofit health entities to additional review by the AG before they can convert to for-profit entities.

: Requires parity between insurance coverage for mental health services and other health care services.

: Allows health carriers to offer one or more health plans which contain deductibles, coinsurance, or other options.

: Requires insurers to offer optional coverage for weight reduction counseling services.

: Mandates insurance coverage for new phases of clinical trials undertaken for the treatment of cancer.

: Mandates insurance coverage for certain prostrate examinations.

: Allows public hospitals in Clay County to close certain records and meetings.

: Requires health insurance reimbursement of certain licensed professional counselors at same rate as psychologists.

: Requires applicants for Medicaid and CHIPs to identify the proposed beneficiary's employer.

: Proposes a "any willing provider" law which would prohibit health insurers from discriminating against providers who are willing to meet the insurer's terms and conditions.

: Prohibits health carriers from changing health services codes without the permission of the physician.

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

: Requires health carriers to provide coverage for mental health conditions in the same manner as physical health conditions.

: Allows public entities to acquire recover payments made for health care benefits made under a self-insurance plan.

: Alllows physicians to jointly negotiate with certain health carriers.

: Includes unborn children within the definition of "children" for eligibility in CHIPs.

: Requires insurance companies to provide coverage for computerized prosthetic devices.

: Allows health insurance carriers to discontinue small employer health benefit plans under certain conditions.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:10 am