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OH SB138
Bill
Status
6/16/2009
Primary Sponsor
Ray Miller
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AI Summary
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Requires health insuring corporations and sickness/accident insurers in Ohio to cover prescribed, orally administered anticancer medications on equal terms with intravenously administered or injected cancer medications for policies covering cancer chemotherapy.
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Applies to individual and group health policies, contracts, and public employee benefit plans delivered, issued, or renewed in Ohio on or after the effective date.
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Excludes coverage requirements for policies covering only specific diseases or accidents, hospital indemnity, Medicare supplement, TRICARE, long-term care, disability income, policies of six months or less, or supplemental-only policies.
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Amends section 1739.05 regarding multiple employer welfare arrangements to require compliance with new section 3923.85 and other self-funded program laws.
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Takes effect upon enactment and applies only to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued, renewed, established, or modified in Ohio after the effective date.
Legislative Description
To require certain insurers that provide coverage for cancer chemotherapy treatment to provide coverage for certain prescribed, orally administered anticancer medication on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered or injected cancer medications that are covered under the policy.
Chemotherapy-insurance cover oral anticancer medication fairly
Last Action
To Insurance, Commerce, & Labor
6/16/2009