Sec. 38a-498a. Preauthorization prohibited for certain 9-1-1 emergency calls.
Sec. 38a-498a. Preauthorization prohibited for certain 9-1-1 emergency calls.
No individual health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (6), (10), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469, delivered, issued for
delivery or renewed in this state, on or after October 1, 1996, shall direct or require an
enrollee to obtain approval from the insurer or health care center prior to calling a 9-1-1 local prehospital emergency medical service system whenever such enrollee is confronted with a life or limb threatening emergency. For purposes of this section, a "life
or limb threatening emergency" means any event which the enrollee believes threatens
his life or limb in such a manner that a need for immediate medical care is created to
prevent death or serious impairment of health.
(P.A. 96-67, S. 1.)
History: (Revisor's note: In codifying public act 96-67 an incorrect reference to "of subsection (a)" appearing before
the reference to "section 38a-469" was deleted editorially by the Revisors).
See Sec. 38a-525a for similar provisions re group policies.