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AZ SB1247

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/28/2014

Primary Sponsor

Adam Driggs

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-first Legislature - Second Regular Session (2014)

AI Summary

  • Requires health insurance plans, HMOs, disability insurance policies, and group/blanket disability policies to charge equal copayments, deductibles, and coinsurance for patient-administered cancer treatment medications (oral or self-injected) and provider-administered cancer treatment medications (injected or intravenously administered)

  • Prohibits insurers from complying with equal cost-sharing requirements by increasing charges for provider-administered medications or reclassifying cancer treatment medication benefits

  • Defines "cancer treatment medications" as prescription drugs and biologics used to kill, slow, or prevent the growth of cancerous cells

  • Applies to four categories of coverage: HMO contracts (section 20-841.10), health care services organization evidence of coverage (section 20-1057.14), disability insurance policies (section 20-1376.05), and group/blanket disability policies (section 20-1406.06)

  • Titled the "Fair Access to Cancer Treatment Act"

Legislative Description

Cancer treatment medications; equivalent cost-sharing

Last Action

Referred to Senate HHS Committee

2/12/2014

Full Bill Text

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