Bill Text: MI HB4842 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance; health; coverage for orally administered cancer chemotherapy; provide for. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3406s.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-07-14 - Recommendation Concurred In [HB4842 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4842-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4842

 

April 29, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Simpson, Kennedy, Liss, Constan, Slavens, Haase, Ebli, Valentine, Gregory, Bledsoe, Spade, Segal, Byrum and Switalski and referred to the Committee on Insurance.

 

     A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled

 

"The insurance code of 1956,"

 

(MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3406s.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3406s. (1) An expense-incurred hospital, medical, or

 

surgical policy or certificate delivered, issued for delivery, or

 

renewed in this state that provides coverage for chemotherapy

 

treatment of cancer and a health maintenance organization group or

 

individual contract that provides coverage for chemotherapy

 

treatment of cancer shall include coverage for a prescribed, orally

 

administered anticancer medication used to kill or slow the growth

 

of cancerous cells.

 

     (2) Coverage under subsection (1) shall not be subject to any

 

prior authorization, dollar limit, copayment, deductible, or

 

coinsurance provision that does not apply to intravenously

 

administered or injected anticancer medications used to kill or

 

slow the growth of cancerous cells.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January

 

1, 2010.