2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 38a - Insurance
Chapter 700c - Health Insurance
Section 38a-503a - Mandatory coverage for breast cancer survivors.
(a) No individual health insurance plan or insurance arrangement, as both terms are defined in section 38a-476, may refuse to cover an individual health insurance applicant due to breast cancer if such applicant has remained free from breast cancer for at least five years prior to the applicant’s request for individual health insurance coverage. The individual health insurance carrier may require that the applicant submit to a physical examination.
(b) The provisions of this section shall apply to every health insurance plan or insurance arrangement issued, renewed or continued in this state on or after October 1, 1996. For purposes of this section, the date a plan or arrangement is continued shall be the anniversary date of the issuance of the plan or arrangement.
(P.A. 96-177, S. 4; P.A. 17-15, S. 57.)
History: P.A. 17-15 made technical changes in Subsec. (a).
