LD 573
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§4249.__Coverage for hospital-based dental treatment for minors

 
All health maintenance organization individual and group
health contracts must provide coverage for dental treatment
performed:

 
1.__Minor.__On a patient who is a minor;

 
2.__General anesthesia.__Using general anesthesia; and

 
3.__Hospital setting.__In a hospital.

 
Sec. 5. Applicability. This Act applies to all policies and
contracts executed, delivered, issued for delivery, continued or
renewed on or after January 1, 2002. All policies and contracts
are deemed to be renewed no later than the next yearly
anniversary of the contract date.

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill requires health insurance policies and contracts to
provide coverage for dental treatment performed on minors under
general anesthesia in a hospital.


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