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CT SB00835
Bill
Status
1/21/2025
Primary Sponsor
Stephen Harding
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AI Summary
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Authorizes association health plans, allowing groups to band together to purchase health insurance coverage
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Establishes a working group to recommend overhauls to health care statutes, including a new mandate review process for health care realignment
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Eliminates certificate of need (CON) requirements for outpatient and inpatient service expansions, while retaining CON requirements for radiology equipment expansion, service reductions/eliminations, and hospital ownership transfers
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Requires the Office of Health Strategy's Health Systems Planning Unit to decide on CON applications within 120 days and mandates public notices and hearings during the application process
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Requires a study of insurers' ability to offer tiered products based on federal essential health benefits standards and evaluates the need for a federal waiver to offer additional tiered and catastrophic insurance plans
Legislative Description
An Act Concerning The Revitalization And Strengthening Of The State's Health Care System To Promote Health Care Quality And Affordability.
Last Action
Referred to Joint Committee on Public Health
1/21/2025