Connecticut General Statutes 38a-550 – Copayments re in-network imaging services
(a) No health insurer, health care center, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation or fraternal benefit society that provides coverage under a group health insurance policy or contract for magnetic resonance imaging or computed axial tomography may (1) require total copayments in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars for all such in-network imaging services combined annually, or (2) require a copayment in excess of seventy-five dollars for each in-network magnetic resonance imaging or computed axial tomography, provided the physician ordering the radiological services and the physician rendering such services are not the same person or are not participating in the same group practice.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-550
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- 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
- Person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint stock company, a business trust, an unincorporated organization or other legal entity. 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
(b) No health insurer, health care center, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation or fraternal benefit society that provides coverage under a group health insurance policy or contract for positron emission tomography may (1) require total copayments in excess of four hundred dollars for all such in-network imaging services combined annually, or (2) require a copayment in excess of one hundred dollars for each in-network positron emission tomography, provided the physician ordering the radiological service and the physician rendering such service are not the same person or are not participating in the same group practice.
(c) The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to a high deductible health plan as that term is used in subsection (f) of § 38a-520.