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Senate passes broad health-insurance and patient-protection bill after hours of debate
Summary
The Connecticut Senate passed Senate Bill 10 as amended, expanding mental-health parity enforcement, narrowing and extending step-therapy exceptions, strengthening rate-review tools, protecting anesthesia coverage and restoring an enforcement provision for facility fees. The roll-call vote was 31–5.
The Connecticut Senate on May 21 passed Senate Bill 10 as amended, a sprawling health-insurance package leaders described as a compromise intended to strengthen mental-health parity, limit certain step-therapy practices and give the insurance commissioner new affordability tools.
Senator Jorge Cabrera, the Senate Insurance and Real Estate Committee chair, summarized the amendment as adding enforceable penalties and transparency to the 2019 parity law and creating narrower, targeted step-therapy exceptions. "This bill attempts to really address some of the issues that many of our constituents and many folks throughout the state of Connecticut and the country have dealt with," Cabrera said on the floor.
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