SF 2563 Senate Long Description
Relating to health care; placing a moratorium on the enactment of new+ mandated health benefits; requiring the commissioner of commerce to permit +health carriers to offer alternative health benefit plans to small employers+ under certain conditions; providing for the use of best practice guidelines+ in medical malpractice cases; providing for the effectiveness of the +federal medicare prescription drug, improvement and modernization act of 2003+ for state income tax purposes; limiting the award of damages for noneconomic +loss, punitive damages and damages recoverable from private nonprofit +hospitals in medical malpractice cases and prohibiting excessive attorney fees; +requiring the commissioner in consultation with the commissioners of health and+ employee relations (DOER) to evaluate existing statutorily mandated health +benefits and report to the legislature by a certain date (mk)