Second Regular Session H.B. 2078
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2078
(Reference to House engrossed bill)
Page 1, line 7, strike the second comma insert "and"; after "coverage" insert "both"
Line 9, strike "that provides coverage"
Strike lines 16 through 22, insert:
"B. A corporation may not increase copayment, deductible or coinsurance amounts for covered cancer treatment medications that are injected or intravenously administered in order to avoid compliance with subsection A of this section, but may increase copayment, deductible or coinsurance amounts for cancer treatment medications if the increase is applied generally to other medical or pharmaceutical benefits under the contract and is not done to circumvent subsection A of this section.
C. A corporation may not reclassify benefits with respect to cancer treatment medications in a manner that is inconsistent with this section."
Reletter to conform
Strike lines 26 through 29
Line 35, strike the second comma insert "and"
Line 36, after "coverage" insert "both"
Line 37, strike "that provides coverage"
Page 2, strike lines 1 through 7, insert:
"B. A health care services organization may not increase copayment, deductible or coinsurance amounts for covered cancer treatment medications that are injected or intravenously administered in order to avoid compliance with subsection A of this section, but may increase copayment, deductible or coinsurance amounts for cancer treatment medications if the increase is applied generally to other medical or pharmaceutical benefits under the evidence of coverage and is not done to circumvent subsection A of this section.
C. A health care services organization may not reclassify benefits with respect to cancer treatment medications in a manner that is inconsistent with this section."
Reletter to conform
Page 2, strike lines 11 through 14
Line 20, strike the second comma insert "and"; after "coverage" insert "both"
Line 22, strike "that provides coverage"
Strike lines 29 through 35, insert:
"B. A disability insurer may not increase copayment, deductible or coinsurance amounts for covered cancer treatment medications that are injected or intravenously administered in order to avoid compliance with subsection A of this section, but may increase copayment, deductible or coinsurance amounts for cancer treatment medications if the increase is applied generally to other medical or pharmaceutical benefits under the policy and is not done to circumvent subsection A of this section.
C. A disability insurer may not reclassify benefits with respect to cancer treatment medications in a manner that is inconsistent with this section."
Reletter to conform
Strike lines 39 through 42
Page 3, line 6, strike the second comma insert "and"
Line 7, after "coverage" insert "both"
Lines 8 and 9, strike "that provides coverage"
Strike lines 15 through 21, insert:
"B. A group or blanket disability insurer may not increase copayment, deductible or coinsurance amounts for covered cancer treatment medications that are injected or intravenously administered in order to avoid compliance with subsection A of this section, but may increase copayment, deductible or coinsurance amounts for cancer treatment medications if the increase is applied generally to other medical or pharmaceutical benefits under the policy and is not done to circumvent subsection A of this section.
C. A group or blanket disability insurer may not reclassify benefits with respect to cancer treatment medications in a manner that is inconsistent with this section."
Reletter to conform
Page 3, strike lines 25 through 28
Amend title to conform
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