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Committee adopts substitute for HB 38 to clarify prosthetics and complex-rehab coverage
Summary
The House Health and Human Services Committee adopted a committee substitute for House Bill 38, which clarifies insurer coverage rules for prosthetics, orthotics and complex rehabilitation technology, including replacement timing and restoration-of-services language. The changes were developed with OSI and insurers and will proceed toward the floor.
The House Health and Human Services Committee on an unspecified date adopted a committee substitute for House Bill 38, a technical rewrite designed to clarify insurance coverage for prosthetics, orthotics and complex rehabilitation technology.
The sponsor told the committee the substitute rewrites coverage language across multiple statutes so insurers and medical providers cannot misinterpret the benefit. "This bill is a simple bill that has to be written in a very complex way," the sponsor said, noting prior prosthetics legislation from this state had been used as a model elsewhere.
Kyle Stepp, the bill’s expert witness,…
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