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PRINTER'S NO. 4112
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2677
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY BOBACK, DONATUCCI, ULLMAN, SCHLOSSBERG, MURT,
PASHINSKI, WARNER, YOUNGBLOOD, MILLARD, FREEMAN, DeLUCA,
HELM, HILL-EVANS, KEEFER, HOWARD, ROEBUCK AND LEE,
JULY 8, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, JULY 8, 2020
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An
act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and
consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of
insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and
protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds
associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and
fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and
supervision of insurance carried by such companies,
associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by
the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and
repealing existing laws," in casualty insurance, providing
for coverage for epinephrine auto-injectors.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known
as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 635.8. Coverage for Epinephrine Auto-Injectors.--(a)
A health insurance policy providing prescription coverage of
epinephrine auto-injectors may not impose on a covered
individual a copayment, coinsurance or deductible of more than
one hundred dollars ($100) for epinephrine auto-injectors needed
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to fill the covered individual's prescription. The following
shall apply:
(1) Each prescription shall be for four epinephrine auto-
injectors.
(2) If a covered individual uses an epinephrine auto-
injector that is the subject of the covered individual's
prescription, a replacement epinephrine auto-injector shall be
issued to the covered individual at no additional cost.
(b) Nothing in this section shall prevent a health insurance
policy from offering a lesser price for the four epinephrine
auto-injectors than the price provided under subsection (a).
(c) The Insurance Department may promulgate regulations as
necessary to implement and enforce the maximum price and
replacement procedures specified under this section.
(d) This section shall not apply to the following types of
policies:
(1) Accident only.
(2) Fixed indemnity.
(3) Limited benefit.
(4) Credit.
(5) Dental.
(6) Vision.
(7) Specified disease.
(8) Medicare supplement.
(9) CHAMPUS (Civilian Health and Medical Program for the
Uniform Services) supplement.
(10) Long-term care or disability income.
(11) Workers' compensation.
(12) Automobile medical payment.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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