General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5118
January Session, 2021 LCO No. 392
Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Introduced by:
REP. NUCCIO, 53rd Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING TELEHEALTH.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 That the general statutes be amended to: (1) Extend the sunset date
2 for certain provisions of public act 20-2 of the July special session to May
3 30, 2022; (2) provide that a health insurer may pay a reduced
4 reimbursement to a health care provider who provides a covered benefit
5 to an insured through telehealth, provided the amount of such reduced
6 reimbursement shall be equal to at least fifty per cent of the
7 reimbursement that the health insurer would have paid to the health
8 care provider if the health care provider had provided the covered
9 benefit to the insured in person; and (3) prohibit a health care provider
10 from seeking reimbursement for an in-person covered benefit if the
11 provider previously sought reimbursement for the same covered benefit
12 provided to the same insured through telehealth.
Statement of Purpose:
To: (1) Extend the sunset date for certain provisions of public act 20-2 of
the July special session to May 30, 2022; (2) provide that a health insurer
may pay a reduced reimbursement to a health care provider who
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provides a covered benefit to an insured through telehealth, provided
the amount of such reduced reimbursement shall be equal to at least
fifty per cent of the reimbursement that the health insurer would have
paid to the health care provider if the health care provider had provided
the covered benefit to the insured in person; and (3) prohibit a health
care provider from seeking reimbursement for an in-person covered
benefit if the provider previously sought reimbursement for the same
covered benefit provided to the same insured through telehealth.
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