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NE LB68
Bill
Status
1/9/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jane Raybould
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AI Summary
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Requires insurance policies and self-funded employee benefit plans to reimburse for FDA-approved self-administered hormonal contraceptives: up to 3-month supply for first prescriptions and up to 12-month supply for subsequent refills
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Applies to individual and group sickness and accident insurance policies delivered, issued, or renewed in Nebraska, excluding specified disease or limited benefit policies
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Mandates Nebraska's medical assistance (Medicaid) program to provide one-time dispensation of a 12-month supply of covered self-administered hormonal contraceptives as prescribed
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Prohibits insurers from imposing cost-sharing if a covered individual switches contraceptive methods before exhausting a previously dispensed supply
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Preserves patient choice by not requiring providers to prescribe 12-month supplies and protecting recipients' freedom to change family planning methods at any time
Legislative Description
Provide insurance and medicaid coverage for certain contraceptives
Last Action
Title printed. Carryover bill
1/7/2026