(a) No health insurer, health care center, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation or fraternal benefit society that provides coverage under an individual health insurance policy or contract for magnetic resonance imaging or computed axial tomography may (1) require total copayments in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars for all such in-network imaging services combined annually, or (2) require a copayment in excess of seventy-five dollars for each in-network magnetic resonance imaging or computed axial tomography, provided the physician ordering the radiological services and the physician rendering such services are not the same person or are not participating in the same group practice.

(b) No health insurer, health care center, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation or fraternal benefit society that provides coverage under an individual health insurance policy or contract for positron emission tomography may (1) require total copayments in excess of four hundred dollars for all such in-network imaging services combined annually, or (2) require a copayment in excess of one hundred dollars for each in-network positron emission tomography, provided the physician ordering the radiological service and the physician rendering such service are not the same person or are not participating in the same group practice.

(c) The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to a high deductible plan as that term is used in subsection (f) of section 38a-493.

(P.A. 06-180, S. 1; 07-54, S. 3; P.A. 10-5, S. 25; P.A. 18-68, S. 14.)

History: P.A. 07-54 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective May 22, 2007; P.A. 10-5 replaced reference to Sec. 38a-520 with reference to Sec. 38a-493 in Subsec. (c), effective May 5, 2010; P.A. 18-68 made a technical change in Subsec. (c).

See Sec. 38a-550 for similar provisions re group policies.