Sec. 3807a.
(1) This section applies to all medicare supplement policies or certificates delivered or issued for delivery with an effective date for coverage on or after June 1, 2010. A policy or certificate shall not be advertised, solicited, delivered, or issued for delivery in this state as a medicare supplement policy or certificate unless it complies with these benefit standards. An issuer shall not offer any 1990 plan for sale on or after June 1, 2010. Benefit standards applicable to medicare supplement policies and certificates issued before June 1, 2010 remain subject to the requirements of section 3807.
(2) Every insurer issuing a medicare supplement insurance policy in this state shall make available a medicare supplement insurance policy that includes a basic core package of benefits to each prospective insured. An insurer issuing a medicare supplement insurance policy in this state may make available to prospective insureds benefits pursuant to section 3809a that are in addition to, but not instead of, the basic core package. The basic core package of benefits shall include all of the following:
(a) Coverage of part A medicare eligible expenses for hospitalization to the extent not covered by medicare from the sixty-first day through the ninetieth day in any medicare benefit period.
(b) Coverage of part A medicare eligible expenses incurred for hospitalization to the extent not covered by medicare for each medicare lifetime inpatient reserve day used.
(c) Upon exhaustion of the medicare hospital inpatient coverage including the lifetime reserve days, coverage of 100% of the medicare part A eligible expenses for hospitalization paid at the applicable prospective payment system rate or other appropriate medicare standard of payment, subject to a lifetime maximum benefit of an additional 365 days. The provider shall accept the insurer's payment as payment in full and may not bill the insured for any balance.
(d) Coverage under medicare parts A and B for the reasonable cost of the first 3 pints of blood or equivalent quantities of packed red blood cells, as defined under federal regulations unless replaced in accordance with federal regulations.
(e) Coverage for the coinsurance amount, or the copayment amount paid for hospital outpatient department services under a prospective payment system, of medicare eligible expenses under part B regardless of hospital confinement, subject to the medicare part B deductible.
(f) Coverage of cost sharing for all part A medicare eligible hospice care and respite care expenses.
History: Add. 2009, Act 220, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2010
Popular Name: Act 218
Last modified: October 10, 2016