(a) As used in this section, “campus”, “facility fee”, “health system”, “hospital” and “hospital-based facility” have the same meanings as provided in § 19a-508c.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-477bb

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Insurance: means any agreement to pay a sum of money, provide services or any other thing of value on the happening of a particular event or contingency or to provide indemnity for loss in respect to a specified subject by specified perils in return for a consideration. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
  • Insured: means a person to whom or for whose benefit an insurer makes a promise in an insurance policy. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
  • Policy: means any document, including attached endorsements and riders, purporting to be an enforceable contract, which memorializes in writing some or all of the terms of an insurance contract. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
  • State: means any state, district, or territory of the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1

(b) (1) Each health insurer, health care center or other entity that delivers, issues for delivery, renews, amends or continues, on or after January 1, 2016, an individual or a group health insurance policy or health benefit plan providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of § 38a-469 in this state, and includes in a contract entered into, renewed or amended on or after October 1, 2015, with a hospital, a health system or a hospital-based facility, reimbursement to such hospital, health system or hospital-based facility for a facility fee for outpatient health care services that are provided at a hospital-based facility located off-site from a hospital campus, shall not impose any separate copayment for such fee.

(2) With respect to an insured covered under such policy or plan, who has not satisfied the deductible applicable to such policy or plan at the time of the provision of the applicable health care service, no such hospital, health system or hospital-based facility may collect from such insured for any applicable facility fee more than the facility fee reimbursement rate agreed to by such insurer, center or other entity pursuant to such contract.