SF 23 Senate Long Description
Relating to commerce ARTICLE 1 - MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT COVERAGEModifying certain provisions regulating medicare supplement +insurance, conforming state law to the minimum federal standards; modifying +eligibility for guaranteed issue, providing eligibility for certain senior +citizens enrolled with a program of all inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) +provider and specifying the start of guaranteed issue periods for certain +enrollees; authorizing issuers to offer a federally enacted medicare +prescription drug benefit consistent with federal law; modifying extended basic +medicare supplement plan coverage for certain copayments ARTICLE 2 - OTHER HEALTH COVERAGERequiring health insurance plans to provide coverage for hearing aids+ for children with hearing loss due to functional congenital malformation +not correctable by other covered procedures, prohibiting special +deductibles, coinsurance, copayments or other limits on the coverage not generally applicable to other coverages; requiring and providing for the +commissioner of commerce in consultation with the commissioners of health and employee relations (DOER) to evaluate+ mandated health benefit proposals to provide the legislature with an analysis +of the ramifications of the proposals, defining mandated health benefit +proposal and specifying certain evaluation content requirements; requiring the +commissioner of commerce to summarize the nature and quality of available +information on the issues and to provide preliminary information to the public; +providing for legislative requests for evaluations, requiring the commissioner to +conduct evaluations upon request, exception, providing for the prioritization+ of requests for evaluation of multiple proposals and specifying a time +limit for reporting results to the legislature; modifying the uniform billing +form requirement under the federal health care financing administration +(HCFA) for home infusion therapyARTICLE 3 � MOTOR FUEL SPECIFICATIONS Updating certain ASTM specifications for petroleum products under the+ ethanol development, petroleum products regulation and gasoline tax +provisions and efining nonethanol oxygenate for gasoline tax purposes (mk)