H05302026 Regular Session
Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding coverage of anticancer medications under health benefit plans.
INSURANCE -- Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding coverage of anticancer medications under health benefit plans.
INSURANCE
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
U.C. to be placed on General Orders, no objection
BILL INFO
- Session
- 2026
- Chamber
- house
- Status date
- Jan 26, 2026