Expands eligibility for temporary disability insurance and paid family leave benefits; makes conforming technical changes.
Relates to providing information to patients and the public on policy-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each health care facility a list of its policy-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.
Directs the state department of social services to establish and maintain a community doula directory for doulas for the purposes of Medicaid reimbursement and promoting doula services to Medicaid recipients.
Provides a permit for a memorial lands facility.
Requires insurers and health plans to grant automatic preauthorization approvals to eligible health care professionals in certain circumstances.
Provides for a minimum reimbursement rate for ambulatory behavioral health services.
Issues distinctive epilepsy awareness license plates; establishes an epilepsy awareness fund and an epilepsy research and education program.
Requires health care plans and payors to have a minimum of twelve and one-half percent of their total expenditures on physical and mental health annually be for primary care services.
Provides for the initiation of treatment for COVID-19, influenza, and pharyngitis resulting from a Group A streptococcal infection by a licensed pharmacist in certain circumstances.
Establishes a maximum temperature in school buildings and indoor facilities; provides a definition of extreme heat condition days and the standard to measure room temperature.
