Senate File 71 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  JOHNSON


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to health care coverage for registered nurse
  2    first assistant benefits or services.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1426SS 82
  5 pf/cf/24

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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  514C.23  REGISTERED NURSE FIRST
  1  2 ASSISTANT COVERAGE.
  1  3    1.  Notwithstanding section 514C.6, an individual or group
  1  4 policy of accident or health insurance or individual or group
  1  5 hospital or health care service contract issued pursuant to
  1  6 chapter 509, 514, or 514A, or an individual or group health
  1  7 maintenance organization contract issued pursuant to chapter
  1  8 514B and delivered, amended, or renewed on or after July 1,
  1  9 2007, that provides coverage for first surgical assistant
  1 10 benefits or services, shall be interpreted to include coverage
  1 11 for a registered nurse first assistant, if the individual
  1 12 meets all of the following qualifications:
  1 13    a.  Is licensed as a registered nurse pursuant to chapter
  1 14 152.
  1 15    b.  Is certified in perioperative nursing.
  1 16    c.  Holds a certificate from and has successfully completed
  1 17 a recognized program for registered nurse first assistant
  1 18 education.
  1 19    2.  For the purposes of this section:
  1 20    a.  "Perioperative nursing" means the practice of nursing
  1 21 in which the nurse provides preoperative, intraoperative, and
  1 22 postoperative nursing care to surgical patients.
  1 23    b.  "Recognized program" means a program that meets all of
  1 24 the following conditions:
  1 25    (1)  Addresses the entire core curriculum for registered
  1 26 nurse first assistants established by the association of
  1 27 perioperative registered nurses.
  1 28    (2)  Includes one academic year, equivalent to two college
  1 29 semesters, in a college or university with didactic
  1 30 instruction and clinical internship programs.
  1 31                           EXPLANATION
  1 32    This bill requires that an individual or group policy of
  1 33 accident or health insurance or individual or group hospital
  1 34 or health care service contract issued under Code chapter 509
  1 35 (group insurance), Code chapter 514 (nonprofit health service
  2  1 corporation), or Code chapter 514A (individual accident and
  2  2 health insurance) or an individual or group health maintenance
  2  3 organization contract issued pursuant to Code chapter 514B
  2  4 (health maintenance organizations) and delivered, amended, or
  2  5 renewed on or after July 1, 2007, that provides first surgical
  2  6 assistant benefits or services is to be interpreted to include
  2  7 registered nurse first assistants, if the individual meets
  2  8 certain qualifications.  The bill specifies the qualifications
  2  9 which must be met and provides definitions.
  2 10 LSB 1426SS 82
  2 11 pf:rj/cf/24