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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 1018

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Relating to: coverage of tests and ancillary procedures for services for which health insurance coverage is mandated.

Insurance — Health Medical practice, group Medical service Public employee — Group insurance Public employee — Labor union

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires health insurance policies, known in the bill as disability

insurance policies, and governmental self-insured health plans to cover tests and

ancillary procedures needed to provide a product or service that the policy or plan is

required to cover under state law. Examples of products or services that policies and

plans are required to cover under current state law include home care, skilled

nursing care, kidney disease treatment, equipment and supplies for diabetes

treatment, mammograms, maternity coverage, lead poisoning screening,

temporomandibular disorder treatment, autism spectrum disorder treatment,

breast reconstruction, immunizations, hearing aids and cochlear implants,

colorectal cancer screening, and contraceptives.

This proposal may contain a health insurance mandate requiring a social and

financial impact report under s. 601.423, stats.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Berceau (D) , Brostoff (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stuck (D) , Subeck (D) , Zamarripa (D)

4 cosponsors

Erpenbach (D) , Larson (D) , Risser (D) , Vinehout (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Anderson, Stuck, Berceau, Zamarripa, Sargent, Spreitzer, Sinicki, Subeck, Brostoff and Pope; cosponsored by Senators Erpenbach, Vinehout, Risser and Larson

  2. Mar 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance

  3. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  4. Apr 16, 2018 · Assembly

    Commissioner of Insurance report received pursuant to s.601.423(2), Wisconsin Statutes