House Amendment 1413


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     1  1    Amend House File 791 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  Page 1, line 18, by striking the figure <2007>
     1  3 and inserting the following:  <2008>.
     1  4 #2.  Page 2, by inserting after line 1 the
     1  5 following:
     1  6    <Sec.    .  PAYOR OF LAST RESORT.  During the
     1  7 period of time from the date of enactment of this Act
     1  8 through June 30, 2008, if a person who is twenty=one
     1  9 years of age or younger receives a prescription for a
     1 10 prosthetic device from a physician licensed under
     1 11 chapter 148, 150, or 150A, and does not have coverage
     1 12 benefits for third=party payment or prepayment for the
     1 13 prosthetic device, the payor of last resort for such
     1 14 coverage benefits shall be the medical assistance
     1 15 program.
     1 16    Sec.    .  PROSTHETIC DEVICE COVERAGE STUDY.  The
     1 17 commissioner of insurance, in collaboration with the
     1 18 division of vocational rehabilitation of the state
     1 19 department of education, shall study the issue of
     1 20 providing access to and health benefit coverage of
     1 21 medically necessary prosthetic devices and report
     1 22 their findings and recommendations concerning the best
     1 23 method to ensure that Iowans have access to medically
     1 24 necessary prosthetic devices to the general assembly
     1 25 by December 15, 2007.>
     1 26 #3.  Title page, line 2, by inserting after the
     1 27 word <devices> the following:  <, providing for
     1 28 certain health benefit coverage by the medical
     1 29 assistance program, providing for a study concerning
     1 30 access to such devices,>.
     1 31 #4.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     1 35 JACOBS of Polk
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     1 39 UPMEYER of Hancock
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