2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 38a - Insurance
Chapter 700c - Health Insurance
Section 38a-492d - Mandatory coverage for diabetes testing and treatment.
(a) Each individual health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state shall provide coverage for laboratory and diagnostic tests for all types of diabetes.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 38a-492a, each individual health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state shall provide medically necessary coverage for the treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes, insulin-using diabetes, gestational diabetes and non-insulin-using diabetes. Such coverage shall include medically necessary equipment, in accordance with the insured person’s treatment plan, drugs and supplies prescribed by a prescribing practitioner, as defined in section 20-571.
(P.A. 97-268, S. 4; P.A. 17-15, S. 51.)
History: P.A. 17-15 deleted references to October 1, 1997.
