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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY WAGNER, BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, CURRY, DePASQUALE, FRANKEL, JOHNSON, JOSEPHS, MAHONEY, MANN, MUNDY, M. O'BRIEN, PAYTON, ROSS, STURLA AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 3, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, FEBRUARY 3, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An |
2 | act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and |
3 | consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of |
4 | insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and |
5 | protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds |
6 | associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and |
7 | fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and |
8 | supervision of insurance carried by such companies, |
9 | associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by |
10 | the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and |
11 | repealing existing laws," in health and accident insurance, |
12 | providing for coverage for prescription contraceptive drugs |
13 | and devices. |
14 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
15 | hereby enacts as follows: |
16 | Section 1. The act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known |
17 | as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, is amended by adding a |
18 | section to read: |
19 | Section 633.1. Coverage for Prescription Contraceptive Drugs |
20 | and Devices and for Outpatient Medical or Counseling Services |
21 | Necessary for the Effective Use of Contraception.--(a) Every |
22 | health insurance policy delivered, issued, executed or renewed |
23 | in this Commonwealth on or after the effective date of this |
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1 | section shall provide coverage for the expenses of: |
2 | (1) Any prescription contraceptive drug. |
3 | (2) Any prescription contraceptive device. |
4 | (3) Any outpatient medical or counseling service necessary |
5 | for the effective use of contraception. |
6 | (b) Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent a |
7 | health insurance policy from imposing any copayment, deductible |
8 | or other cost-sharing mechanism or premium differential in |
9 | relation to any of the following coverage, provided that the |
10 | limitation for the coverage is not greater than or different |
11 | from all other copayments, deductibles or other cost-sharing |
12 | mechanisms or premium differentials imposed under general terms |
13 | and conditions under the policy: coverage for prescription |
14 | contraceptive drugs, prescription contraceptive devices and |
15 | outpatient medical or counseling services necessary for the |
16 | effective use of contraception. |
17 | (c) As used in this section, the following words and phrases |
18 | shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection: |
19 | "Health insurance policy." |
20 | (1) Any individual or group health insurance policy, |
21 | contract or plan which provides medical or health care coverage |
22 | by any health care facility or licensed health care provider on |
23 | an expense-incurred service or prepaid basis and which is |
24 | offered by or is governed under any of the following: |
25 | (i) This act. |
26 | (ii) Subdivision (f) of Article IV of the act of June 13, |
27 | 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the "Public Welfare Code." |
28 | (iii) The act of December 29, 1972 (P.L.1701, No.364), known |
29 | as the "Health Maintenance Organization Act." |
30 | (iv) The act of May 18, 1976 (P.L.123, No.54), known as the |
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1 | "Individual Accident and Sickness Insurance Minimum Standards |
2 | Act." |
3 | (v) A nonprofit corporation subject to 40 Pa.C.S. Ch. 61 |
4 | (relating to hospital plan corporations) or 63 (relating to |
5 | professional health services plan corporations). |
6 | (2) The term does not include any of the following types of |
7 | insurance or a combination of any of the following types of |
8 | insurance: |
9 | (i) Short-term travel. |
10 | (ii) Accident-only. |
11 | (iii) Workers' compensation. |
12 | (iv) Short-term nonrenewable policies of not more than six |
13 | (6) months' duration. |
14 | (v) Hospital indemnity. |
15 | (vi) Specified disease. |
16 | (vii) Disability income. |
17 | (viii) Dental. |
18 | (ix) Vision. |
19 | (x) Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed |
20 | Services (CHAMPUS) supplement. |
21 | (xi) Medicare or Medicaid supplemental contract. |
22 | (xii) Long-term care. |
23 | (xiii) Limited coverage accident and sickness policy. |
24 | This subparagraph includes cancer insurance, polio insurance |
25 | and any similar policy identified as exempt from this section by |
26 | the Insurance Commissioner. |
27 | "Outpatient medical or counseling service necessary for the |
28 | effective use of contraception." The term includes, but is not |
29 | limited to, examinations, procedures and medical and counseling |
30 | services provided on an outpatient basis and services for |
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1 | initial and periodic comprehensive physical examinations, |
2 | medical, laboratory and radiology services warranted by the |
3 | initial and periodic examinations or by the history, physical |
4 | findings or risk factors, including medical services necessary |
5 | for the insertion and removal of any contraceptive drug or |
6 | device and individual or group family planning counseling. |
7 | "Prescription contraceptive device." Any regimen of a |
8 | prescription contraceptive device approved by the Food and Drug |
9 | Administration, as well as any generic equivalent approved as |
10 | substitutable by the Food and Drug Administration. |
11 | "Prescription contraceptive drug." Any regimen of a |
12 | prescription contraceptive drug approved by the Food and Drug |
13 | Administration, as well as any generic equivalent approved as |
14 | substitutable by the Food and Drug Administration. |
15 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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