AR HB1304

Requires all health benefit plans offered, issued, or renewed in Arkansas to provide coverage for prenatal vitamins prescribed by a healthcare professional on or after January 1, 2024.

Applies to individual, blanket, and group plans including the Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me Program, indemnity plans, managed care plans, and state/public school employee plans.

Permits healthcare insurers to apply policy deductibles and copayment requirements to prenatal vitamin coverage without diminishing other plan benefits.

Requires the Insurance Commissioner to develop and promulgate implementation rules by January 1, 2024, with the State Board of Finance developing rules for state and public school employee plans.

Excludes dental-only, vision-only, disability income, credit insurance, workers' compensation, and accident-only plans from the coverage mandate.