Research guide
prepared by the Connecticut Judicial Branch law librarians:
Connecticut Network for Legal
Aid:
Living Wills & Advance Directives
Admissions, Waiting Lists, Contracts and Deposits [Nursing Homes]
Room-to-Room (Intra-Facility) Transfers in Nursing Homes
Medicaid May Pay for Nursing Home Care (Title 19)
Transfers/Discharges from a Nursing Home and Your Rights
Bed Reservations (holds) [Nursing homes]
Complaint Procedures [Nursing homes / staff]
OLR Research Reports - Office of Legislative Research:
Issue
Brief: COVID-19 and Connecticut Long-Term Care Facilities -
2020-R-0320
COVID-19
Executive Orders Affecting Health and Human Services -
2020-R-0110 This report provides brief summaries of the governor's
COVID-19 executive orders concerning health and human services.
COVID-19 Executive Orders Concerning Telehealth - 2020-R-0138
Summarize the governor's COVID-19 executive orders (EO) concerning
telehealth.
Nursing Home Visitor Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 2020-R-0140
Summarize the governor's COVID-19 executive orders (EO) concerning
visitor access to nursing homes.
Abortion
Copayments, Coinsurance,
Deductibles, Insurance Rates
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Connecticut's Health Insurance Rate Review Requirements - 2018-R-0226 Describe Connecticut's statutory rate review requirements for individual and group health insurance policies. What factors does the Connecticut Insurance Department use to approve an insurer's proposed rate increase? (This report replaces OLR Report 2010-R-0507.)
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Copayments and Deductibles on Medicaid and Health Insurance Plans
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2015-R-0160 This report provides information on copayments and deductibles for (1)
Medicaid, (2) state employee medical plans, and (3) other private health
insurance plans. It also includes general income limits for eligibility for
Connecticut's Medicaid-funded health care programs.
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Setting Rates For An Individual Health Insurance Policy
- 2008-R-0127 You asked how an insurance company sets
rates for an individual high deductible health plan, a federally tax
qualified plan compatible with a health savings account. Specifically, you
wanted to know if an individual is considered part of a group for rating
purposes.
Disabilities and Disability Insurance
Health Insurance Benefits and
Coverage
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Health
Insurance Coverage for Behavioral Therapy - 2022-R-0042
Summarize health insurance coverage requirements for behavioral therapy
in Connecticut and surrounding states.
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Issue
Brief: Healthcare Coverage Expansions - 2021-R-0215
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Issue
Brief: Connecticut Health Insurance Reform 2016-2021 - 2021-R-0160
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OLR Backgrounder:
State-Mandated Health Insurance Benefits - 2021-R-0218 This report lists and briefly summarizes Connecticut's mandated health insurance benefits. It updates OLR Report 2020-R-0258.
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Connecticut's Mental Health Parity Law - 2021-R-0210 This
report summarizes Connecticut's mental health parity requirement,
including when it was adopted and its impact on commercial health
insurance policies.
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Insurance
Coverage of Telehealth Services - 2021-R-0199 Describe
Connecticut's requirements for insurance coverage of telehealth
services, as enacted in
PA 20-2, July Special Session (JSS) and
PA 21-9).
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Long-Term
Care Insurance -
2021-R-0186 Explain long-term care (LTC) insurance, including
recent policy proposals in Connecticut and other states to reduce
premium increases.
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Health
Insurance Requirements for Surprise Bills in Connecticut -
2020-R-0204 Describe Connecticut's requirements for health
insurance coverage of surprise bills.
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Issue
Brief: Health Insurance Coverage for Insulin and Diabetes Under PA 20-4
(JSS) - 2020-R-0202
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Insurance Coverage
for Bariatric Surgery - 2019-R-0273 This report addresses questions
regarding health insurance coverage for bariatric surgery (e.g.,
gastric bypass) to treat obesity. It identifies states that (1) require
commercial health insurance policies to cover bariatric surgery, (2)
proposed a bariatric surgery insurance coverage mandate in the past five
years and any identified fiscal impact, and (3) require coverage of
bariatric surgery under state Medicaid plans. The report also briefly
summarizes some relevant studies on the cost effectiveness of bariatric
surgery.
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Issue
Brief: Living Donor Protection Act - 2019-R-0303
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Insurance Coverage
for Preexisting Conditions - 2018-R-0355 Summarize the current law
regarding coverage for preexisting conditions under a health insurance policy.
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Continuity of Care
Requirements for Connecticut Insurance Coverage - 2017-R-0332 Summarize Connecticut's continuity of care requirements for insurance
coverage and indicate when they were enacted.
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COBRA Coverage
Versus Special Enrollment in Access Health CT Plan - 2017-R-0167 May a person age 62 to 65 who experiences a qualifying life event that causes
the person to lose job-based health insurance coverage elect coverage under the
federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) or does the
federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) require the person to obtain individual
coverage through the state's health insurance exchange (i.e., Access Health CT)?
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Illegal Act and
Drug and Alcohol Exclusions in Health Insurance Policies - 2016-R-0138
Explain illegal act and drug and alcohol exclusions in insurance policies in
Connecticut and other states.
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Health Insurance
Transparency Questions - 2016-R-0116 Health insurance disclosure issues and related questions.
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OLR
Backgrounder: Health Insurance Provider and Facility Mandates
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2015-R-0273 Describe Connecticut
health insurance provider and facility mandates. This report updates OLR
Report 2008-R-0138.
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Health
Insurance Benefit Mandates - 2015-R-0188 When are states required to defray the cost of health insurance benefits
(i.e., benefits required by state law) under the Federal Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act( ACA)?
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Small Employer
Grouping for Health Insurance Coverage - 2011-R-0363
You asked if Connecticut law permits small employers to group
together solely to secure health insurance coverage. If yes, you want a
legislative history of the law allowing this grouping.
Health Care Facilities, Medical Professionals, Health Care
Workers
Immunization
Living Wills, Health Care Representatives, Right
To Die
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Aid in Dying
Legislation in Connecticut - 2019-R-0175 Summarize Connecticut's
recent "aid in dying" legislation and provide an overview of related testimony.
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Right to Die Laws -
2012-R-0477
You asked about laws or legislation in other states concerning
the right to die. You also asked about Connecticut bills on this
topic.
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Living Wills and Health Care Representatives
- 2008-R-0237 You asked how Connecticut's living will and health care representative
laws compare with other states, especially regarding the situations a
living will covers.
Medicaid
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Medicaid
Eligibility - 2022-R-0066 This report
describes current Medicaid income eligibility requirements in
Connecticut. It updates OLR Report
2020-R-0253.
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Issue
Brief: Medicaid 101 - 2019-R-0301
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Medicaid Glossary
- 2017-R-0053 This report provides a glossary of acronyms associated with Connecticut's
Medicaid program. The table includes their terms and definitions. It also
includes links to relevant information.
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Medicaid Cost
Sharing - 2016-R-0240 Does Federal law prohibit States from imposing cost sharing requirements on
Medicaid recipients?
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Access to Medicaid
Services - 2015-R-0291 This report summarizes a new federal rule on access to Medicaid services (80 FR 67575).
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Medicaid and
the Affordable Care Act - 2015-R-0216 What changes did the federal Affordable Care Act make to the Medicaid
program?
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Chronic Care in
Medicaid and Public Health
- 2014-R-0031 This report addresses several
questions on programs targeting frequent use of the emergency department
(ED) by Medicaid beneficiaries, as well as questions on chronic disease
programs and related legislation. The specific questions and answers follow.
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Medicaid Coverage of Assisted Living
Services - 2009-R-0300
You asked (1) if Medicaid coverage is available to someone living in a
private assisted living facility and (2) what the legislature could do
to help seniors who exhaust their own resources remain in these
facilities instead of being forced to move into more restrictive
settings. You have a constituent living in a private Alzheimer's
assisted living facility who can no longer pay for his care and was told
he must transfer to a nursing home in order to receive Medicaid
coverage.
Medical Records, Personal Health Information
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Patient
Medical Records Access - 2020-R-0069 This report provides an
overview of state laws on patient access to medical records from
individual health care providers in a question and answer format.
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Personal Health
Information Disclosure - 2016-R-0050 Describe the laws that limit the circumstances in which health care providers
may release a patient's personal health information.
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Disclosure of Deceased Person's Medical Records
- 2013-R-0124 You asked (1) whether patient confidentiality rights
continue after death and (2) if so, could the legislature change this?
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OLR Backgrounder:
Patient Access to Medical Records - 2012-R-0510
This report updates OLR Report
2010-R-0339, which
summarizes state laws on patient access to medical records in a question and
answer format. (The terms "medical records" and "health records" are used
interchangeably reflecting their usage in statute.)
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Patient
Information Security
- 2009-R-0019 You asked for information regarding federal and state safeguards
preventing the medical industry from using patients' social security
numbers (SSNs) inappropriately, particularly the security standards, the
penalties for security breaches, and efforts to curb the use of SSNs.
Mental Health and Addiction, Controlled
Substances
Prescriptions, Medications, Pharmacy
Screening For Health Conditions
State & Federal Assistance Programs
Miscellaneous
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Recent
Changes to Connecticut's Telehealth Law - 2021-R-0198
This report describes recent changes to Connecticut's requirements for
the delivery of telehealth services, as enacted in
PA 21-9.
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COVID-19
Executive Orders Affecting Health and Human Services - 2020-R-0110
This report provides brief summaries of the governor's COVID-19
executive orders concerning health and human services. The report
includes all related executive orders since the governor's March 10,
2020
declaration of public health and civil preparedness emergencies,
through April 9, 2020.
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Connecticut's Public Health Quarantine Laws
- 2020-R-0068 Provide an overview of Connecticut's public health
quarantine laws.
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Defibrillators
- 2018-R-0332 This report provides an overview of Connecticut law on
automatic external defibrillators and describes legislative proposals that did
not pass that would require AEDs in additional settings.
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Connecticut's
Family and Medical Leave Act - 2015-R-0308 This report describes the state's Family and Medical Leave Act (CGS Sec. 31-51kk through 31-51qq) for private-sector employers.
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Short-Term
Care Insurance
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2015-R-0185 This report answers several questions about short-term care insurance in
Connecticut. The specific questions and answers follow.
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Affordable Care Act - Questions and Answers
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2013-R-0300 This report presents a series of questions
and answers about the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(ACA) (P.L. 111-148), as amended. For a more detailed overview of the
law's private health insurance provisions, see OLR Research Report
2010-R-0255.
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Prison Health Care
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2005-R-0214
Connecticut Office of the Attorney General:
Disability Rights Connecticut (DRCT):
Connecticut Office of
Health Care Access (Publications Archive):
Connecticut Insurance Department:
The Judicial Branch law libraries hold a number of
items which may be of help to a person researching health care law. The Subject
Headings below are recommended, and can be entered as subject searches using our
online catalog.
It is also recommended that you
contact us
for availability of materials.
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Medical Care - Law and Legislation
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Medical Records - Law and Legislation
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Hospitals - Law and Legislation
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Connecticut General Statutes |
Selected
statutes:
Chapter 319i. Part III - Patients Rights (Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities; Also known as
the Patients' Bill of Rights)
TITLE 19a - PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Chapter 369. Healing Arts
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Sec. 20-7c.
Access to medical records.
Notification to patient of certain test results. Authority of provider to
withhold information.
(Contains
access requirements for health care providers, including maximum cost per
page that the provider can charge)
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Sec. 20-7d.
Release of
patient's medical records to another provider.
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Sec. 20-7e.
Medical records maintained by agencies.
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Sec. 20-7f.
Unfair billing practices.
Chapter 698a. Health Care and Related Service Groups
Chapter 700c. Health Insurance
(Note
that the statutory sections that list the mandatory coverage requirements (e.g.
prostate cancer screenings,
mammograms,
infertility treatments, etc.) for individual health insurance policies can
be found in Chapter 700c of the statutes.)
Chapter 705. Connecticut Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act
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Sec. 38a-976.
Definitions.
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Sec. 38a-988. Disclosure
limitations and conditions.
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Sec. 38a-988a.
Sale of individually identifiable medical record information prohibited.
Written consent re disclosure for marketing purposes. Exceptions. Cause of
action for violations.
Chapter 815j. Dissolution of Marriage, Legal Separation and Annulment
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Sec. 46b-84. Parents'
obligation for maintenance of minor child. Order for health insurance
coverage.
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Sec. 46b-56. OOrders
re custody, care, education, visitation and support of children. Best
interests of the child. Access to records of minor child by noncustodial
parent. Orders re therapy, counseling and drug or alcohol screening.
("A parent
not granted custody of a minor child shall not be denied the right of access
to the academic, medical, hospital or other health records of such minor
child, unless otherwise ordered by the court for good cause shown."
Sec.
46b-56(g))
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Sec. 46b-88. National Medical Support
Notice. Duties of issuing agency, employer and administrator of group health
plan.
Connecticut Insurance
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Connecticut Department of Public Health
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Connecticut
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