Report Title:

Mastectomies; Hospital Stays; Insurance coverage

 

Description:

Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for hospital stays of at least forty-eight hours in connection with mastectomies.  Sunsets June 30, 2020.  (HB2011 HD1)

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2011

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

RELATING TO BREAST CANCER.

 

 

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 article 10A to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§431:10A-    Hospital length of stay coverage; mastectomies.  Each policy of accident and health or sickness insurance providing coverage for mastectomies shall provide coverage for a hospital length of stay of at least forty-eight hours in connection with a patient's recovery from a mastectomy."

     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-    Hospital length of stay coverage; mastectomies.  All individual and group hospital and medical service contracts providing coverage for mastectomies shall provide coverage for a hospital length of stay of at least forty-eight hours in connection with a patient's recovery from a mastectomy."

     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] 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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2020.