STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

SENATE BILL 399	By:	Shortey

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to health insurance coverage; requiring certain health benefit plans to provide coverage for the renewal of certain eye drops for certain persons; requiring the coverage to be subject to certain limits; specifying policies not subject to the coverage; defining term; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 6060.8b of Title 36, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  Any health benefit plan that is delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2012, shall provide coverage for any covered individual who is at least fifty (50) years of age for a renewal of prescription eye drops when:
1.  The renewal is requested by the insured less than thirty (30) days from the later of:
a.	the date the original prescription was distributed to the insured, or
b.	the date the last renewal of such prescription was distributed to the insured; and
2.  The prescribing physician or optometrist indicates on the original prescription that additional quantities are needed and the renewal requested by the insured does not exceed the number of additional quantities needed.
B.  The coverage provided for by this section shall be subject to the same annual deductibles, co-payments or coinsurance limits as established for other covered benefits under the health plan.
C.  The provisions of this section shall not apply to policies or certificates issued to individuals or to groups with fifty (50) or fewer employees, or to plans offered under the state Medicaid program.
D.  As used in this section, “health benefit plan” means any plan or arrangement as defined in subsection C of Section 6060.4 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

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