| WV | HB116 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the PEIA to reimburse covered persons for GLP-1 agonist medications prescribed by a physician for weight loss.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-19
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB453 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require any pharmacy benefit manager ("PBM") who contracts with PEIA to be entirely transparent in providing its full data around pricing and payments for drugs and to pharmacies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 142, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB875 | Pass | Relating to certain insurance coverage provided by BRIM
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 148, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4786 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Delivery Network Company Insurance Act. The bill provides for definitions. The bill defines interaction with other laws. The bill provides for insurance requirements. The bill provides for disclosures to Deli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 168, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4933 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to exclude dentures from the $1,000 dental coverage cap.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 167, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5057 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to define a nominal fee for providing a referral to an insurance company or producer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 170, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4753 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance coverage for biomarker testing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Removed from calendar by Rules Committee |
| WV | HB5082 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt persons who have held an insurance license for 20 years or more from the requirement to attend continuing education courses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Communicated to House |
| WV | HB5241 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Insurance Commissioner to audit claims under the Public Employees Insurance Act related to post-traumatic stress syndrome disorder PTSD claims for evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment for first responders; c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5399 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify state auditing practices and requirements to facilitate efficient financial management of volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments; directing state audit functions of these departments to the State Auditor; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB686 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit actions for damages or attorney's fees under Shamblin v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., 183 W. Va. 585 (1990) against the Board of Risk and Insurance Management or any person employed by the board or any entity with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5593 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the creation, composition, qualifications, and compensation of the State Board of Risk and Insurance Management
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to continue and reconstitute the membership of the Board of Risk and Insurance Management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
Referred to Rules on 3rd reading |
| WV | SB444 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that health insurance coverage for emergency services when a prudent layperson acting reasonably would have believed that an emergency medical condition existed includes prehospital screening and stabilization o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB856 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance providers to provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations without cost sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5670 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to, except for emergency medical treatment, require a parent a parent who has been allocated custodial responsibility to provide the other parent notice prior to medical expenses being incurred that may be greater than $20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB839 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide county boards of education with the option of seeking insurance coverage from licensed insurance carriers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB831 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure financial or product assistance are available for a prescription drug.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reallocate ten basis points of the one percent premium tax on fire insurance and casualty policies from the Teachers Retirement System to the Municipal Pensions Security Fund, and to decrease the amount of time in which...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5541 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase insurance coverage to a minimum amount of $2000 that may be recovered by a fire department responding to fire call at an insured property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5682 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Prescription Drug Affordability Board and Prescription Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council and establishing the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund, and commissioning studies and reports from the board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5681 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit insurance rates in WV from being based upon credit or insurance scores.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5643 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to actions for damages or attorney’s fees in cases involving Board of Risk Management and Insurance
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5580 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5577 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing required medical coverage for autism spectrum disorders
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5618 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to cost sharing for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4823 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the "West Virginia Public Adjuster Professional Standards Reform Act." The bill providing a title. The bill creates the application for licensure. The bill details the public adjuster and insured contract require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5417 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for transparency of the expenditure of dental health care plan premiums, and to require annual reports and rebates to patients if the medical loss ratio exceeds a certain percentage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5505 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to extend Medicaid coverage for pregnant women by having the Bureau for Medical Services request a State Plan Amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5310 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of the Remote Patient Outcome Improvement Act. The bill provides for definitions. The bill provides for a short title. The bill creates definitions. Finally, the bill provides for utilization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5328 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to extend Medicaid coverage for pregnant women by having the Bureau for Medical Services request a State Plan Amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5218 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to cap insurance copayments for certain services at $500 a year for insureds who are terminally ill until death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5190 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require physical therapy, speech, and occupational therapy insurance coverage for school age children up to age 18 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5183 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance coverage for biodentical hormones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5104 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase mandatory insurance coverage limits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB535 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit cancellation of homeowners insurance for an isolated incident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5032 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require health care facilities not exempt from certificates of need to provide health care services to persons who are under the public employees insurance act (PEIA).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring medically necessary care and treatment to address congenital anomalies associated with cleft lip and cleft palate
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4950 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to requiring insurers to notify policyholders of specific amendments or changes that are made to the policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4997 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require habilitative speech therapy as a treatment for stuttering insurance coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4931 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change insurance carrier requirements for health plans with dental coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4857 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit Medicaid and CHIP payment for certain prohibited medical practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4831 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia from two to four program participants per medical school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB178 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for transparency of the expenditure of dental health care plan premiums, and to require annual reports and rebates to patients if the medical loss ratio exceeds a certain percentage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB311 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA), the Bureau for Medical Services (BMS) and various insurance companies to provide coverage for non-stress fetal tests, including an ultrasound. This coverage also inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4644 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of a person's credit history in certain insurance transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to dissolve the Public Employees Insurance Agency and convert it to an employer-owned mutual insurance company.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB383 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the required medical coverage from various providers relating to autism spectrum disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB396 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Health and Human Resources to allow reimbursement for remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests utilizing established CPT codes for these procedures when the patient is in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB350 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create and define the civil offense of unlawful discriminatory practices by a financial institution or government entity against manufacturers, retailers, distributors, shooting ranges, or trade associations that suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
