Bill > H787

This bill mandates that health insurance policies, including those for state employees and retirees, individual accident and sickness insurance, group blanket or general accident and sickness insurance, hospital service plans, medical service agreements, and health maintenance contracts, must provide coverage for medically necessary emergency psychiatric services on a non-discriminatory basis, meaning these services should be covered similarly to other emergency medical services. The bill defines "emergency services programs" as those contracted by the mass behavioral health partnership for emergency services and specifies that these new coverage requirements will apply to policies, contracts, and certificates issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2011, with the act itself taking effect on January 1, 2017.