Report Title:

Health Insurance; Colonoscopy Coverage

Description:

Requires health insurance plans to cover screening for colorectal cancer by colonoscopy every ten years, beginning at age fifty.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1062

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to health insurance.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 431, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part I of article 10A to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§431:10A-   Colonoscopy coverage. Each policy of accident and health or sickness insurance, other than life insurance, disability income insurance, and long-term care insurance, issued or renewed in this State, shall provide coverage for the screening of colorectal cancer by colonoscopy every ten years, beginning at age fifty."

SECTION 2. Chapter 432, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to article 1 to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§432:1-   Colonoscopy coverage. All individual and group hospital and medical service plan contracts issued or renewed in this State shall provide coverage for the screening of colorectal cancer by colonoscopy every ten years, beginning at age fifty."

SECTION 3. Section 432D-23, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§432D-23 Required provisions and benefits. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, each policy, contract, plan, or agreement issued in the State after January 1, 1995, by health maintenance organizations pursuant to this chapter, shall include benefits provided in sections 431:10-212, 431:10A-115, 431:10A-115.5, 431:10A-116, 431:10A-116.5, 431:10A-116.6, 431:10A-119, 431:10A-120, [and] 431:10A-121, and 431:10A-   , and chapter 431M."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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