(a) As used in this section, “campus”, “facility fee”, “health system”, “hospital” and “hospital-based facility” have the same meanings as provided in section 19a-508c.
(b) (1) Each health insurer, health care center or other entity that delivers, issues for delivery, renews, amends or continues, on or after January 1, 2016, an individual or a group health insurance policy or health benefit plan providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 in this state, and includes in a contract entered into, renewed or amended on or after October 1, 2015, with a hospital, a health system or a hospital-based facility, reimbursement to such hospital, health system or hospital-based facility for a facility fee for outpatient health care services that are provided at a hospital-based facility located off-site from a hospital campus, shall not impose any separate copayment for such fee.
(2) With respect to an insured covered under such policy or plan, who has not satisfied the deductible applicable to such policy or plan at the time of the provision of the applicable health care service, no such hospital, health system or hospital-based facility may collect from such insured for any applicable facility fee more than the facility fee reimbursement rate agreed to by such insurer, center or other entity pursuant to such contract.
(P.A. 15-146, S. 14.)
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