STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 54th Legislature (2013)

SENATE BILL 547	By:	Brown

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to health insurance coverage; prohibiting certain higher copayment or coinsurance for certain services rendered by certain doctors; 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 6046 of Title 36, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
No health benefit plan, as defined in subsection C of Section 6060.4 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall impose any copayment or coinsurance amount on an insured for services rendered by a chiropractic physician licensed under the Oklahoma Chiropractic Practice Act that is greater than the copayment or coinsurance amount imposed on the insured for the services of a primary care physician licensed under the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act or the Oklahoma Osteopathic Medicine Act for the same or a similar diagnosed condition even if a different nomenclature is used to describe a condition.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2013.

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