5512-S AAS 3/9/99

SSB 5512 - S AMD - 051

    By Senator Costa

                                                    ADOPTED 3/9/99

    On page 4, line 1, after "plan" strike "shall contract" and insert "contracts"

    On page 4, line 2, after "community." insert "If all of the providers or facilities with whom the carrier contracts within the enrollee's local community decline to  participate in the provision of contraceptive health care services, the carrier shall contract with a provider or facility within the enrollee's local community that will provide such services."

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EFFECT: Allows for a referral, where available, to a provider already within a carrier's network to provide contraceptive services.  Where not available within its existing network, the carrier would have to contract with a provider outside of its network.