Connecticut General Statutes Title 38A. Insurance § 38a-504f. Clinical trials: Standardized forms. Time frame for coverage determinations. Appeals. Regulations

(a) (1) For purposes of cancer clinical trials, the Insurance Department, in cooperation with the Connecticut Oncology Association, the American Cancer Society, the Connecticut Association of Health Plans and Anthem Blue Cross of Connecticut, shall develop a standardized form that all providers, hospitals and institutions shall submit to the insurer or health care center when seeking to enroll an insured person in a cancer clinical trial. An insurer or health care center shall not substitute any other approval request form for the form developed by the department, except that any insurer or health care center that has entered into an agreement to provide coverage for cancer clinical trials approved pursuant to section 38a-504g may use the form or process established by such agreement.

(2) For purposes of clinical trials other than cancer clinical trials, the Insurance Department, in cooperation with at least one state nonprofit research or advocacy organization concerned with the subject of the clinical trial, at least one national nonprofit research or advocacy organization concerned with the subject of the clinical trial, the Connecticut Association of Health Plans and Anthem Blue Cross of Connecticut, shall develop a standardized form that all providers, hospitals and institutions shall submit to the insurer or health care center when seeking to enroll an insured person in a clinical trial. An insurer or health care center shall not substitute any other approval request form for the form developed by the department, except that any insurer or health care center that has entered into an agreement to provide coverage for clinical trials approved pursuant to section 38a-504g may use the form or process established by such agreement.