Conn. Gen. Stat. § 38a-472i

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.
Section 38a-472i - Payment amount of professional services component of covered colonoscopy or endoscopic services

Each insurer, health care center, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation or fraternal benefit society that delivers, issues for delivery, renews, amends or continues an individual or group health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 in this state, and contracts directly with a physician or physician group or physician organization to provide medical services under such policy shall, at such contracted physician's or physician's group's or physician's organization's request, establish a payment amount for the physician's professional services component of colonoscopy or endoscopic services covered under such policy, that is the same regardless of where the physician's professional services are performed. Such payment amount for the physician's professional services shall not be less than the amount that would otherwise be paid to such contracted physician or physician group or physician organization if the services are performed at a facility other than an outpatient surgical facility, as defined in section 19a-493b. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a contracted physician or physician group or physician organization from agreeing to a different payment methodology for colonoscopy or endoscopic services.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 38a-472i

( P.A. 11-225, S. 3.)

Added by P.A. 11-0225, S. 3 of the the 2011 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2011.

See Secs. 38a-492k and 38a-518k for individual and group health insurance coverage for colorectal cancer screening.