A bill to require that health plans provide coverage for medically necessary health care and related services for children who are age 3 or younger, and for other purposes.
Children's Health Insurance for Long-Term Development Act of 1996 - Requires health plans and employee health benefit plans to ensure coverage of all medically necessary health care and related services for children during the Infant Neurological Risk Exposure Period (INREP), which extends through age three and encompasses the period of most rapid neurological changes in young children. Prohibits health plans from using a service limitation, including a lifetime benefit limit, to deny medically necessary health care and related services to a child.
Sets forth enforcement provisions.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12350-12351)
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