Bill Text: CA AB1520 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health care coverage: prostate cancer: screening.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1520 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1520-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
April 14, 2021 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1520
| Introduced by Assembly Member Levine (Principal coauthor: Senator Allen) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gipson) |
February 19, 2021 |
An act to amend Section 1367.64 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10123.83 of the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1520, as amended, Levine.
Health care coverage: prostate cancer: screening.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires individual and group health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies to provide coverage for the screening and diagnosis of prostate cancer, when medically necessary and consistent with good professional practice. Existing law specifies that it does not prevent the application of deductible or copayment provisions for those services. Existing law requires an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy to, at a minimum, include coverage for essential health benefits, which include
preventive services, pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
This bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after January 1, 2022, from applying a deductible, copyament, copayment, or coinsurance to coverage for preventive care specified screening services for prostate cancer for an enrolled
enrollee
or insured who is 55 years of age or older or is 40 years of age or older and is high risk, as defined.
determined by their health care provider.
Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1367.64 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:1367.64.
(a) Every individual or group health care service plan contract, except for a specialized health care service plan contract, that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 1999, shall be deemed to provide coverage for the screening and diagnosis of prostate cancer, including, but not limited to, prostate-specific antigen testing and digital rectal examinations, when medically necessary and consistent with good professional practice.(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to This
section does not establish a new mandated benefit or to prevent application of deductible or copayment provisions in a policy or plan, nor shall this section be construed to does this section require that a policy or plan be extended to cover any other procedures under an individual or a group a health care service plan contract. Nothing in this section shall be construed to
This section does not authorize an enrollee to receive the services required to be covered by this section if those services are furnished by a nonparticipating provider, unless the enrollee is referred to that provider by a participating physician or nurse practitioner providing care.
(c) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), a health care service plan contract, except a specialized health care service plan contract, that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, shall not apply a deductible, copayment, or coinsurance to coverage for preventive care screening services for prostate cancer described in subdivision (a)
for an enrollee who meets either of the criteria in paragraph (2).
(2) This subdivision applies to both of the following:
(A) A person with a prostate who is 55 years of age or older.
(B) (i) A person with a prostate who is 40 years of age or older and who is high risk. risk, as determined by the attending or treating health care provider.
(ii) “High risk” includes
includes, but is not limited to,
a person with a prostate who is AfricanAmerican, Black, has a family history of prostate cancer,
has a genetic predisposition to prostate cancer, or is a veteran.
(3) For high deductible plans, this subdivision is subject to federal guidance on the preventive care safe harbor for the absence of a preventive care deductible provided for under 26 U.S.C. U.S.C. Sec. 223(c)(2)(C).
SEC. 2.
Section 10123.835 of the Insurance Code is amended to read:10123.835.
(a)(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to This
section does not require an individual or group a health insurance policy to cover the surgical and other procedures known as radical prostatectomy, external beam radiation therapy, radiation seed implants, and combined hormonal therapy, or to prevent application of deductible or copayment provisions contained in the policy, nor shall this section be construed to does this section require that coverage under an individual or group
a health insurance policy to be extended to any other procedures.
(c)This section shall not apply to specified accident, specified disease, hospital indemnity, Medicare supplement, or long-term care health insurance policies.
(d)(1)Notwithstanding subdivision (b), an individual or group policy of disability insurance that covers hospital, medical, or surgical benefits
(c) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), a health insurance policy that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, shall not apply a deductible, copayment, or coinsurance to coverage for preventive care screening services for prostate cancer described in subdivision (a) for an insured who meets either of the criteria in paragraph (2).
(2) This subdivision applies to both of the following:
(A) A person with a prostate who is 55 years of
age or older.
(B) (i) A person with a prostate who is 40 years of age or older and who is high risk. risk, as determined by the attending or treating health care provider.
(ii) “High risk” includes includes, but is not limited to, a person with a prostate who is AfricanAmerican, Black,
has a family history of prostate cancer,
has a genetic predisposition to prostate cancer, or is a veteran.
(3) For high deductible plans, this subdivision is subject to federal guidance on the preventive care safe harbor for the absence of a preventive care deductible provided for under 26 U.S.C. U.S.C. Sec. 223(c)(2)(C).
(d) This section does not apply to specified accident, specified disease, hospital indemnity, Medicare supplement, or long-term care health insurance policies.
