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House advances bill on mental-health parity, step therapy and facility-fee transparency
Summary
The House debated substitute Senate Bill 10, expanding reporting and enforcement for mental-health parity, removing step-therapy for MS and rheumatoid arthritis, protecting anesthesia coverage and applying Connecticut's unfair trade practices act to facility-fee violations; the chamber adopted amendments and advanced the bill.
The House considered substitute for Senate Bill 10, a broad health-insurance package. Representative Wood, chair of the Insurance and Real Estate Committee, said the measure strengthens mental-health parity by requiring additional reporting to the Department of Insurance and creates new penalties for carriers that deny parity protections. "We are making sure health carriers are in compliance with our very important mental health parity laws here in Connecticut," she said on the floor.
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