Bill Text: CA AB2158 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Health care coverage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-20 - Referred to Com. on HEALTH. [AB2158 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2158-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2158
| Introduced by Assembly Member Wood |
February 10, 2020 |
An act to repeal and add Section 10112.2 of the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2158, as introduced, Wood.
Health care coverage.
Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), enacts various health care market reforms. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a group or individual health care policy issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after September 23, 2010, to comply with the requirements of the PPACA, and any rules or regulations issued under the PPACA, that require a group health plan and health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage to, at a minimum, provide coverage for specified preventive services, and prohibits the plan or health insurance issuer from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for those preventive services. Existing law requires a health insurer to comply with those provisions to the extent required by federal law.
This bill would delete the requirement that a health insurer comply with the requirement to cover preventive health services without cost sharing to the extent required by federal law, and would instead require a group or individual health insurance policy to, at a minimum, provide coverage for specified preventive services without any cost-sharing requirements for those preventive services, thereby indefinitely extending those requirements.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 10112.2 of the Insurance Code is repealed.To the extent required under federal law, a group or individual health insurance policy issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after September 23, 2010, shall comply with Section 2713 of the federal Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 300gg-13), as added by Section 1001 of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), and any rules or regulations issued under that section.
SEC. 2.
Section 10112.2 is added to the Insurance Code, to read:10112.2.
(a) A group or individual health insurance policy shall, at a minimum, provide coverage for and shall not impose any cost-sharing requirements for all of the following:(1) Evidence-based items or services that have in effect a rating of “A” or “B” in the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, as periodically updated.
(2) Immunizations that have in effect a recommendation, as periodically updated, from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to the individual involved.
(3) With respect to infants, children, and adolescents, evidence-informed preventive care and screenings provided in the comprehensive guidelines, as periodically updated, supported by the United States Health Resources and Services Administration.
(4) With respect to women, those additional preventive care and screenings not described in paragraph (1) as provided for in comprehensive guidelines supported by the United States Health Resources and Services Administration for purposes of this paragraph.
(5) For the purposes of this section, the current recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force regarding breast cancer screening, mammography, and prevention shall be considered the most current other than those issued in or around November 2009.
(b) This section does not prohibit a health insurance policy from providing coverage for services in addition to those recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force or to deny coverage for services that are not recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
