Adds to existing law to provide that anticancer medications that are self-administered by a patient shall not have a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount than injected or intravenously administered anticancer medications.
INSURANCE -- Adds to existing law to provide that anticancer medications that are self-administered by a patient shall not have a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount than injected or intravenously administered anticancer medications.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The purpose of this legislation is to create co-insurance parity for cancer treatment patient cost regardless of treatment being intravenously administered, injected, or orally taken. The legislation directs the Department of Insurance to ensure state regulated health plans, when anti-cancer medication is covered by a health plan, to provide patients access to orally administered anti-cancer medications at a co-insurance rate no more than the cost to access injected or intravenously administered medication.
LATEST ACTION
Read First Time, Referred to Health & Welfare
BILL INFO
- Session
- 2019
- Chamber
- senate
- Status date
- Mar 5, 2019