2010 Tennessee Code
Title 56 - Insurance
Chapter 7 - Policies and Policyholders
Part 25 - Mandated Insurer or Plan Options
56-7-2508 - Coverage for infant hearing screening test.

56-7-2508. Coverage for infant hearing screening test.

(a)  “Hearing screening” or “hearing screening test” means a screening or test provided in accordance with current hearing screening standards established by a nationally recognized organization such as the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing Screening of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

(b)  Any individual, franchise, blanket or group health insurance policy, medical service plan contract, hospital service corporation contract, hospital and medical service corporation contract, managed health insurance issuer contract, fraternal benefits society plan, or health maintenance organization plan that provides coverage for hospital and surgical expense insurance and that is delivered, issued for delivery, amended or renewed in this state on or after July 1, 2008, shall provide coverage for infant hearing screening tests as provided in § 68-5-904.

(c)  The coverage required by this section may be subject to annual deductible, co-pays, co-insurance and contractual requirements established for other similar benefits within the policy or contract; provided, that the annual deductible, co-pays, co-insurance and contractual requirements for the coverage required by this section are no greater or more restrictive than those established for other similar benefits within the policy or contract of insurance.

(d)  Nothing in this section shall apply to accident only, specified disease, hospital indemnity, medicare supplemental, long-term care, disability or other limited benefit insurance policies or to any employer plan exempt from regulation under this title due to § 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), compiled in 29 U.S.C. § 1144.

[Acts 2008, ch. 768, § 8.]